Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course of the conversation Overlook allows that despite his fifteen years in the city, he has always been a country lad at heart, whereas his visitor and his charming wife were born to the civilized life of cities. The latter looks at Mrs. Overlook with "a twist of hopeless longing in his eyes," and replies in a low voice. "I was born in a Iowa...
...boldly individualistic. Since he has no patience with the life or art that shelters itself from wind and storm, he finds queer things happen to him. He was born at Tarrytown Heights, N. Y., his one conventional experience. From Horace Mann School, he testifies, he was dismissed as a hopeless moron. At Columbia University they found him a "capital" student, but finding the University after three and a half years a little irksome he blithely whistled good-bye to his diploma and the final semester, to become a painter. From his studies he was lured successively by Vermont, Alaska...
Washington lawyers are dubious, do not believe the Supreme Court will reverse itself on the strength of the Morris letter. Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League, archfoe of John Barleycorn was scornful, said: "Morris's opinion was only his lone opinion, in a hopeless minority...
...things about it are: 1) It was written by Hatcher Hughes, who is a professor of Columbia University and the author of a Pulitzer prize play, Hell Bent fer Heaven; 2) The cast acted, directed, produced the piece, after the original sponsor had given it up as hopeless...
Author Gorky introduces characteristic figures-the hunchback brother who tries to hang himself for hopeless love, later becoming a monk, then losing his faith; women of various shapes and sizes, uniformly brainless except Pyotr's mother-in-law, who became his father's mistress; a pink-faced carpenter, a philosophizing ancient and that creature as indispensable to a Russian novel as are bobbed hair and bachelors to the Saturday Evening Post-the village idiot. But Author Gorky's powers, however fully displayed here, have produced books that were far more readable than this one. The action...