Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many occasions I would hear the cries of girls in various parts of the camp. But nothing could be done. The guards were armed and the prisoners were cowed into a state of hopeless subjection. While I was at Wishery six girl prisoners gave birth to infants...
...Zlotnik family, Polish Jews, were not well off in their native country. Father Anshel was good at cantillating the Book of Esther but hopeless at making money...
...remaining four are of lesser timber. "Holiday in Buenos Aires" describes that city in the sixties. "The Devil in Pago Chico" is the tale of a fire in the pampas grass. "Rosaura" is a cruelly sensitive story of a young girl's hopeless love and suicide, so feverish that it quivers between bright beauty and absurdity. The last of the seven, "The Return of Anaconda," carries a boa constrictor down the Parana River in a flood, has the jungle talking, raises the gooseflesh. All the stories are delicately translated by Anita Brenner, gain spice in the weird black-and-whites...
...life. Especially was she provoked when he entertained his hobo wards in their parlor, cooked them mulligan which he, a vegetarian, would not eat, in the fireplace. She left him two years ago. got her final divorce decree only a fortnight ago, now lives in Los Angeles, hopeless of getting a dower share in his inheritance...
...discover the reason. But when scheming, divorced, baby-blue-eyed Shirley appears on the scene, re-establishes herself in the community, re-engages herself to Stan, Margaret's cold but not really hard heart has begun to blossom. There are naturally complications; in fact, the situation becomes so sinister, hopeless and black that you can hardly hope there will be a happy delivery. Authoress Norris, however, comes smiling through...