Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bibble-babbler is Ashurst. His tongue can burn as well as bless. When the late Huey P. Long had the Senate buffaloed, hog-tied and helpless with his parliamentary agility, when few Senators even dared to cross him, Ashurst took the floor one day (July 15, 1935) to give Huey what still stands on the Senate's books as the most comprehensive dressing down administered in the chamber in modern history, a flaying executed so neatly and yet so politely, rich in classical allusion and historical anecdote, that the garrulous Kingfish was for once stumped for an answer...
...British have found no way to stop the smuggling. Even if a boatload of refugees is captured, the authorities are helpless, for all identification papers have been destroyed and there is no country to which they can be deported. Moreover, Secretary MacDonald's retaliatory prohibition of legal immigration may even increase the smuggling of refugees by convincing even moderate Jews that it is morally justifiable...
...recent struggle in Spain has harrowed us enough with Franco's cynical cruelties, aided by the Berlin-Rome Axis, against helpless noncombatants. But what could be more depraved than that now charged by Mr. Alfred Cope [TIME, June 19], administrator of the American Friends Service Committee, against General Franco? Mr. Cope says that six or seven shiploads of food intended for the starving children who are victims of the Totalitarian blockade of Loyalist Spain, were deliberately diverted by Franco to feed his army...
...fame, then spoiled him and his chances. The darling of the family, Branwell enjoyed his tantrums unchecked; he grew to be an irresolute exhibitionist. When he began to realize that he was only a frustrated artist, he took the byroad to ruin via liquor and laudanum, while his helpless family stood by and watched...
Pound has definite ideas on education, economics, politics and American history, besides his concern with literature. In his recent book "Culture" he said, among other things, "A great many 'scholars' are as helpless as isolated mechanics wd. be were each possessed of some spare part, screw, die, ever, cog, of a huge 'machine...