Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front box thumbing their noses with great determination. Today at 9 o'clock in Sever 7, Dr. Carpenter will lecture in America's contemporary poetry. The Vagabond is going; for don't doctors work on diseased corpses? And all the poetry is not discuses even to such a hopeless romantic as the Vagabond. There is much that is good, and more that is interesting in this period. But to those souls who find the triumph of American Literature in this post war age lot the Vagabond remark with one of the late Victorians, "Fare well Romance, and all unseen, Romance...
...Athens, where Premier Eleutherios Venizelos of Greece might have offered hopeless encouragement to Cyprus' revolutionaries, the foxy old Greek statesman mercifully said: "The question of Cyprus does not exist between Greece and Great Britain. It exists only between Britain and the Islanders...
...saying that Harding had to liquidate the War; Coolidge had quietly to liquidate the scandals of the Harding regime; and Hoover is now watching the liquidation of 'Coolidge prosperity.' " The War was a calamitous setback to the U. S. Dream. "The prospect is discouraging today, but not hopeless. . . . We have a long and arduous road to travel if we are to realize our American dream in the life of our nation, but if we fail, there is nothing left but the old eternal round. The alternative is the failure of self-government, the failure of the common...
...Round Hill Club. For Independent Syndicate Inc. he writes a daily ''Word of Comfort" to be used at the head of obituary notices in newspapers of 30 States. Sample: "Do you feel that your life is in complete disarray and that you are a victim of hopeless bewilderment? Lay hold upon certain pivotal facts: God loves you; the earthly life is preparation for a richer life beyond...
...nominators were half a thousand discouraged Republicans, disgruntled Democrats, disgusted Socialists, Populists and Independents who gathered from 25 States. Plain, thin-pursed men with faces stamped with sun and soil, most of them were in overalls or shirt sleeves. Theirs, they needed no realist to tell them, was a hopeless gesture against the two major parties but at least it was a gesture springing from strong political convictions that U. S. economics are today sadly out of gear...