Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt was the deadest of dead Democrats when defeated for the vice-Presidency in 1920. ¶How the following year an acute attack of poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) left his muscles atrophied from the waist down. ¶How he, a helpless cripple, was lifted to the rostrum of the Democratic convention at Masison square Garden to nominate Alfred Emanuel Smith for the Presidency in 1924. ¶ How he discovered the mineralized waters of Warm springs, Ga. as a cure for his infirmity in 1924. ¶How a cane had replaced crutches when he again nominated Al Smith at Houston...
...before the House was an awful moment for the U. S. Drys, Consolidated. To them it marked the end of an era during which their power over Congress and the country had been practically supreme. The great dam they had built against the "liquor traffic" had cracked, they were helpless to stem the ensuing flood. Their six-vote victory over Repeal in a nominally Dry House was a portent of defeat in the coming Wet one. The Wets, on top for the first time as a result of the election, did not exult too loudly. Responsibility was sobering even...
...last storm-tossed shower was at Boston in 1871. Only 20 recorded times in the past 40 years has the bird been found inland. Looking somewhat like a dove-sized penguin, the little auk is helpless on land. It feeds chiefly on a type of water bug found only at sea, needs the impetus of a wave to get into the air. Of nearly 100 picked up in New York's metropolitan area last week, only four survived...
Seventy-year-old Walter Damrosch, whom a New York Times editorial called "Ariel" fortnight ago when he began again to waft and explain safe & sane music over the air to 6,000,000 children, fumed: "To force these [Stokowski's] experiments on helpless children is criminal. Should cubism have been used to preach the glories of painting to our young people...
...they did not upset him, influenced him too much. Soon Halo found herself neglected, left alone while Vance went off on expeditions with friends or to parties where she was not invited. When Floss Delaney, Vance's boyhood love, drifted across their scene, Vance went after her like a helpless dog. Both Halo and Vance had bad times: he left her so often and so long that finally she was afraid he had gone for good. But at last, safely back in the U. S., Halo got her divorce, Vance found Floss was not unlike a dog herself, learned that...