Word: hopelessness
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...portrayal of a generous and sacrificing friend, Frederic March, so wooden in Anna Karenina, makes something of a comeback as a gay young officer who goes blind in the war. In fact one of the bleakest scenes in months is where he's sitting around, blind and hopeless, trying to be nice to some stupid children. He puts across his various moods of hope and black despair with a reality and depth of feeling that Mr. March's audiences are not always treated...
...born that way. He did nevertheless; but the situation was complicated by the reappearance of her long lost husband, who really wasn't such a bad fellow and had besides saved Mr. Grant's life earlier in the picture (Claude Rains tries hard with this part, but it's hopeless). The solution is obvious. The unnecessary husband was simply shot by the natives, after a manly scene of reconciliation with his successor...
...Even the ''infallible" editors of TIME are human. So my purpose in writing you is merely to express the conviction that some researcher in Soviet America of tomorrow will uncover this letter in your expropriated establishment and experience a tiny glow of appreciation for my hopeless, but well-meaning effort to confuse the omniscient...
...shuffled up & down in front of the hospital. While the Senator's political enemies buried Assassin Weiss with honor in a nearby Catholic cemetery next day, the Senator's doctors ordered five successive blood transfusions, adrenalin injections, an oxygen tent. Toward sunset, when his condition became hopeless, it was arranged that the lights would blink in the sickroom to signify the end to friends and kin on the porch below. At 4 a. m. two mornings after he was shot, Huey Long, breathing heavily, was staring wild-eyed at the canopy above him. At 4 :10 the lights...
Lead v. Cancer. To the indignation of other cancer specialists who have found lead treatments ineffective for cancer, Dr. Arnold Erwin Osterberg & associates of Rochester, Minn. insisted that they cured seven cases of hopeless cancer by giving the patients enough lead phosphate to poison them. Before the patients lost control of their wrists or went mad, Dr. Osterberg gave them intravenous injections of calcium salts. This procedure overcame the effects of lead poisoning, expelled the lead from the patients' systems. By that time the cancers had begun to disappear, eventually vanished. The chemistry back of Dr. Osterberg...