Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, Eastern's Manager Eddie Rickenbacker plus a dozen other expert navigators sweated over charts and signals from Pilot Jones in a hopeless effort to locate the wandering plane. At midnight, radio stations, led by WOR, began asking listeners to "step outside and see if you can hear an airplane anywhere over your home." Promptly from five States came 227 calls reporting the plane. Once the lost ship was said to be circling Manager Rickenbacker's house in Bronxville, N. Y. When Pilot Jones at last picked up a beacon, one & all cursed with relief, identified it from...
...revolution changed from a matter of singing in the streets to a grim and hopeless siege, a subtle change came over them. Mr. Witt, who stayed in his shaded study, ate oranges, made wise remarks to the English consul and watched the shells exploding in the blue waters of the bay, grew mysteriously old, suspicious, weary. Milagritos, who prepared bandages, went with the rebel fleet on its biggest battle, seemed to grow younger, prettier, less communicative. When Milagritos' cousin was sentenced to be shot, Mr. Witt raced to save him, although he had always been mildly disturbed by Milagritos...
...which Generalissimo & Mme Chiang have fled was a military secret this week. Their job is now to wage against Japan such guerrilla warfare as General Sandino hurled from his Nicaraguan mountains against the forces of Calvin Coolidge. To such a resourceful man as Chiang the fight is not necessarily hopeless. Japan is not the U. S. Her resources have already been badly strained and it is conceivable that if the fight is sufficiently long and costly, it may break her economically. Nor is China Nicaragua. She is so large that any invader inevitably has long lines open to attack...
...countrified Celt as well as a citified Englander, Poet MacNeice spends many of his poems in trying to figure how a contemporary European can seriously find any purpose in modern country life, any coherence in modern city life. In the beautiful and economically hopeless rural districts...
...mock-serious composition, Poet Auden confides his thoughts about English literature in general, about his own life and times in particular, points a pretty straight finger at the hot spot on which up-to-the-minute literates fry perforce. His view of his fellow poets is neither encouraging nor hopeless : . . . many are in tears...