Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jean Choux, who wrote the story, avoided such cliches. As the candid husband. Rene Lefebvre has built up a brilliant characterization in comic pathos. He has cheerfully ground coffee at his wife's command, comforted her. unwittingly, when one of her lovers departed for Brazil. He is so helpless, so friendly that Clo-Clo tries to spare his feelings by not telling the bad news. Marceline returns and in the end, so skillfully has incident been used to characterize his charm, that it is climax enough when Jef never learns of her unfaithfulness at all. Good shot: Marceline, leaning...
...Significance. Fundamental in the new measure was this clear statement of U. S. public policy on Labor: Whereas under prevailing economic conditions . . . the individual unorganized worker is commonly helpless to exercise actual liberty of contract and to protect his freedom of labor, and thereby to obtain acceptable terms and conditions of employment, wherefore it is necessary that he have full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of his own choosing, to negotiate the terms and conditions of his employment, and that he shall be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor . . . in concerted...
Vial attends the swimming parties, picnics, too. Always in his background hovers young Helene Clement, whom he, to his distaste, infatuates. Helene, a green girl helpless, appeals to older, infinitely wiser Colette. She does her woman's best to forward the affair. But the affair won't go forward: it is Colette whom Vial loves. She knows it, will not admit it until there is nothing else to do. After two summers of perfect prenuptial flying, Vial goes back to his Paris shop, apparently to stay. Helene Clement will see to that. Colette takes Vial's departure...
...left jab and punishing his body. His first punch in the second round, on Loughran's mouth, really ended the fight. Loughran got up after a count of eight, went down again immediately from a right to the jaw. When he fell for the third time, dazed and helpless, Referee Gunboat Smith stopped the fight...
...Keeping Faith." As helpless as ousted Finance Minister Inouye last week was ousted Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara, who looks as much like Theodore Roosevelt as a Japanese can and who has tried in vain for the past three months to win Japanese militarists to his "Peaceful Policy" respecting China and Manchuria...