Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dictatorships. "Democracy has disappeared in several other great nations-disappeared not because the people of those nations disliked democracy, but because they had grown tired of unemployment and insecurity, of seeing their children hungry while they sat helpless in the face of government confusion, government weakness, weakness through lack of leadership in government. Finally, in desperation, they chose to sacrifice liberty in the hope of getting something...
...widow Thomas is an extremely loquacious, scatter-brained person, who, is develops, is meant to be irresistibly attractive in a plump, helpless, middle-aged way. Her charm is unfortunately obscured, with the result that a perfectly honest suitor, a sinister looking Italian who deals in rugs, is mistaken in the first act by most of the audience for a crafty villain with some base design to his wooing. He subsequently appears, however, for no worse end than to supply the impoverished family with some sorely needed cash at the opportune moment. This change of face is not intended...
...spending in all $855,000,000. The greater part of the funds, which are to be proportioned according to the educational needs of the states, are supposed to go to elementary and secondary education. The two reasons given for the government splurge are that the states are helpless and that the present average educational service shows "glaring inequalities" and in certain states is "below the minimum necessary for the preservation of democratic institutions." The plan, then, is perfect except for the means by which the government intends to dispose of the appropriations. For to leave their control to state educational...
...Chamber. It did not give French women the vote, did cancel at one stroke the network of laws under which a French wife has been almost as much under her husband's authority as though she were a minor child, unable to sign a check without his countersignature, helpless to make a will or contract without his express approval, unable to leave France or appear on the stage in France should he forbid...
Last week the board-three B. A. C. men headed by Miller C. Foster of the Department of Commerce, and Montana Aeronautics Commissioner Fred B. Sheriff -issued a preliminary report. Northwest's veteran pilot, Nick Mamer, was completely exonerated. Helpless at the controls after part of the tail structure of his plane "fluttered" off, Pilot Mamer could do nothing but await death as his ship plunged to the ground...