Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lest the public get the notion that the Law is helpless in the face of thugdom, the Associated Press called to mind that in 18 notorious kidnapping cases in the past three years, 43 criminals have been jailed, three are dead, ten await trial. Prior to last week, the four most important kidnappees of the year were Broker Charles Boettcher II of Denver, little Peggy McMath of Cape Cod. Mary McElroy, daughter of Kansas City's city manager, and Brewer William Hamm of St. Paul. The abductors of all save Hamm are either doing time or awaiting trial...
...should leave to private initiative everything it can do as well as or better than the government. . . . The duties of the government are the coinage of money, defense of the nation, suppression of crime, regulation of monopolies, maintenance of public health and care of the indigent and helpless. But in America the State is now performing these normal functions so very badly that even if it were right in principle to extend its functions, a totally blind man could see that the time is not yet ripe for such extension. . . . The government should content itself in the field of industry...
What is the woman to do? She is. in all probability, quite helpless. Those who are sufficiently well-off to afford a divorce usually are. She has been taught that some man will take care of her for the rest of her days. She has neither the initiative nor the ability to get or hold a job. Hers is a sad awakening. The only thing she can do is blame another one of our well-established American institutions. . . . SEWELL CRANE...
...suit which .combines flexibility with pressure resistance, had opened one safe from which was recovered ?15,000 in gold. Another dive, he related, had provided an experience he would not care to repeat. He and a companion were caught alongside the jagged wreckage by a strong tide. He was helpless in the dark green water for 40 min. Undertow bashed him against sharp steel, so dented his duralumin suit that twelve stitches had to be taken in his side when he was rescued an hour later. His hand was mangled. His hair had turned white...
...have been the moving spirit behind a persecution incredible in its extent and bitterness, and those who have been most active in dispensing figures and anecdotes have also neglected no opportunity to point the moral of a well adorned tale. Those apocryphal Germans who hacked the hands from helpless little Belgians have been resurrected, and in their new incarnation seem for more terrifying because they are far more plausible. It is easier to believe that Hitler summarily dispossessed Lion Feuchtwanger than it was to picture the Kaiser as a rather debased Antichrist...