Word: hopelessly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cartoon of a place and a period, as flagrant as a copy of the Police Gazette and as forthright as a set of brass knuckles. Good shot: a terrific fight with ashcans, fists, brickbats, blackjacks, between Chuck Connors' fire company and Steve Brodie's, while the hopeless Chinese in a burning tenement squeal for help...
...siege to Miss Barrett's fluttering heart, Flush was almost a softy. He viewed Mr. Browning with alarm, did his best to break up the match. On two occasions Flush attacked him, bit his stalwart leg to no effect. A graceful realist, he saw the struggle was hopeless, admitted Mr. Browning to his friendship...
...showmanship, the judge should first let the dogs be paraded jauntily around the ring. Then he should have them spaced at even intervals, proceed to his examination. A good judge will probably weed out hopeless specimens during the parade. But he should not forget that every exhibitor has paid an entry fee, thinks his dog has a chance to win. So let the judge at least pretend to give each dog a thorough examination...
...even arranged to serve a voluntary term in a cell to get a real taste of prison life, but when newshawks discovered the scheme he abandoned it. For three years he worked as assistant district attorney of Philadelphia county, invariably drawing the toughest cases which his chief thought were hopeless...
...leaped to his feet to describe how the President's decree caused suffering and destitution among disabled veterans. West Virginia's Hatfield, a physician, produced an x-ray picture of a man whose thigh had been shot away and whose spine was full of shrapnel splinters. "A hopeless cripple," pronounced Dr. Hatfield, "and his allowance is to be cut from $120 to $80 per month." Pennsylvania's Reed told of a veteran with one leg shot off in battle who that very morning had hobbled into his office to protest a cut in his disability compensation from...