Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cure for our troubles and still cling to the methods of a hundred and fifty years ago!" And I might add Jesse James. But this is utterly meaningless, a mere hodge-podge of names and inconsistencies, mere guesswork. And nothing is said by way of clearing up this hopeless jumble. Or perhaps he was being witty? Further comment needless, such statements as quoted can be most irritating. They are an insult to one's intelligence. They forfeit any claim to intellectual integrity. Alfred M. Nittle...
Aware that his CAM bond issue was hopeless at this time, Nominee Sinclair proposed, instead, to levy a tax on industrial corporations and utilities to raise ''$5,000,000 or $10,000,000" to prime his EPIC pump. He proposed to go to a man with an idle dress factory, for example, rent his plant for tax-receivable paper for three years, retaining the executives at their old salaries. Unemployed would be put to work making dresses for other unemployed, who would in turn be set to work as soon as possible in other factories...
Father Kenny said that so long as the Cristeros (religious opposition) are without arms "the situation is hopeless." Nevertheless all the Cristeros have not lost hope. In Mexico City 40,000 Catholics blocked traffic for hours in "mute protest" against persecution of their Archbishop. In Magdalena, after local officials seized a 150-year-old statue of San Francisco Xavier, patron of the district, they gathered angrily in such numbers that troops were called to watch them...
...more dangerous trail to Cali fornia. To get her daughter Celeste away from Emmet, a rough-&-ready Westerner, her mother sees to it that they go in different directions. But luckily for the caravan, Emmet rejoins them later, guides them on their terrible journey through the mountains. In a hopeless attempt to save some who have been left behind. Emmet is frozen to death. Though Celeste makes no secret of the fact that she is carrying his child, her mother is reconciled: her trip has given her a broader view. As patriotic literature or red-blooded narrative The Westward Star...
...attitude toward General Johnson was that of a football crowd which sees a game but groggy player finally sent to the showers long after he should have been taken out of play. "He did the job," said the New York Herald Tribune. "Patriotic and gallant, but allied with a hopeless cause," said the Baltimore Sun. "No one could have tried harder," concluded the Chicago Tribune which hated him. In Los Angeles, the Times gave full credit for "good intentions." The Kansas City Star lamented his departure on the grounds that, while he was "a great showman," he was also...