Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judge. Tammany's effort to protect its own now looked hopeless indeed. A last appeal for Dr. Doyle was made to Chief Judge Cardozo. For all practical purposes Judge Cardozo is as far from Tammany's reach as is Chief Justice Hughes from Scarface Al Capone's. Scholarly, liberal, a creative as well as an interpretative force upon the bench, he is always one of the first jurists mentioned when a vacancy occurs in the Supreme Court of the U. S. When the question of Horse Doctor Doyle's immunity came to him in the homely old study...
...with political alarm, had carefully picked his Young Republican delegates mostly from petty jobholders. Last April he said: "Many of our universities and colleges are literally saturated with Radicalism. Text books, classroom lectures and private conversations ... are antagonistic to the traditional policies of the Republican party. ... As it is hopeless to expect a reform ... the approach to the young man and woman must be made independent of our educational system...
...President of France: white-whiskered, mildly conservative Paul Doumer, President of the Senate, and Brandy Distiller Jean ("***") Hennessy, candidates of the Opposition parties. M. Doumer was practically sure of the Senate's vote, was fairly sure of election against any one but Briand. As a candidate, *** Hennessy looked hopeless. Anti-Briand strategists talked seriously of drafting plump, smiling President Gaston Doumergue for a second term. "Le bon Gastounet" issued no I-do-not-choose but remained as coyly silent as any Coolidge...
...interest only to themselves. It is Author Mackail's especial triumph that he raises their realism to the plane of fiction. This year in Tiverton Square sees its tragedy of first love: in the eyes of the Square a victory of middle-aged common sense over two hopeless young romantics. The Author. Denis George Mackail is only 39 but The Square Circle is his 14th book. Refreshingly respectable, he was educated at St. Paul's and Oxford, is married, has two daughters, lives quietly in London where he is a member of London's quietest, most respectable...
Inasmuch as it seems to be hopeless to expect a reform in the textbooks which teach free trade, internationalism, public ownership of private industry, etc., and inasmuch as it is apparently equally hopeless to expect the teachers in institutions of higher education to abandon their radicalism, and socialistic theories, the approach to the young man and the young woman who is about to become a citizen must be made independent of our educational system...