Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discover that it is correct. Perhaps the final answer to this Professor of Music lies in his environment, The son of a Congregationalist minister and a practical mother, there was no reason to expect his talent. One brother teaches law at the University of California and another struggles with hopeless problems of taxes and finance. The youngest son of such a family is liable to be smothered by such a plethora of practicality. But Edward Ballantine never lost his individuality. Through his undergraduate days, the years in Germany and his career here afterwards, the determination with its slightly whimsical slant...
...Sacha Stavisky to bother with international espionage. But one connection between the two stories was obvious. Both the Paris police and the Sûreté Générale were under orders to play the Switz spy scare for all it was worth in a gallant if hopeless effort to distract an enraged public from the malodorous morass of L'Affaire Stavisky...
...spare, but he was having a love affair with Herendene's wife, which complicated matters. Upshot was that Hoxsie sold to the Providence company and Perry made a discretionary retreat to Europe. Mary Herendene's husband discovered a revealing billet doux from her lover. Hoxsie gave up hopeless farming and got the fishing boat he had pined for, but he hardly liked the sight of the cheap new houses springing up in his old fields. No one was very happy. Even 224 pages of doggerel would be an achievement, and Hoxsie Sells His Acres is often far from...
Oliver found Carolyn more interesting than the hopeless case; soon they were in love. When Amy met a Tammany lawyer and made eyes at him, Castie soon got a parole and Amy's husband the horns he had long deserved. Oliver, torn between his ambition and Carolyn's faith in him, nearly went mad, thought of killing her. Instead, he sank his scruples and blackmailed his way into the Tammany trough, Castie, out of jail but still an unconsidered gangsterling, made another attempt to show the world by holding up his benefac tress, Amy, shot her by mistake...
...plainly not cut out for the Strong Man which events both foreign and domestic foreshadow. The dizzy succession of cabinets has played into the hands of the fascist element, and the Royalists have contributed their little bit to the general unrest and dissatisfaction, though they are in a hopeless minority as far as independent action is concerned. It would not be surprising if the fascists won them over, as in Germany, by promises later easily annulled. The plight of the Left Wing is particularly acute in such a nationalistic country, of course, faced by a future which will without doubt...