Word: hopelessness
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...provide some keys to University Hall for the minor officials such as the Dean of the College. Last night we saw Dean Hanford trying the door by his office and finding it locked, try all the rest of the doors in turn. Finally giving it up as a hopeless job, he turned forlornly away...
...lodgings where her only friend is a blowsy adventuress. When her two pre-War pals are demobilized one of them plans to start an honest weekly; he dies of cancer before he can make a beginning. The other retires into scientific research. Hervey leaves her job, helps found the hopeless paper and serves it faithfully until it founders. Her husband becomes more & more of a problem. As this first volume ends, Hervey is beginning to find an answer to her difficulties by getting to be a moderately successful novelist. A chronicle-novel by a painfully honest contemporary chronicler, Company Parade...
...track situation looks pretty hopeless for the Crimson with the Yale meet coming up on Saturday. If Eddie Casey was pulling his punches against the Green, there is still chance for a decisive win, but an optimistic guess at the score, on the basis of the Dartmouth meet, would give the Kli a good five point advantage...
...discover that it is correct. Perhaps the final answer to this Professor of Music lies in his environment, The son of a Congregationalist minister and a practical mother, there was no reason to expect his talent. One brother teaches law at the University of California and another struggles with hopeless problems of taxes and finance. The youngest son of such a family is liable to be smothered by such a plethora of practicality. But Edward Ballantine never lost his individuality. Through his undergraduate days, the years in Germany and his career here afterwards, the determination with its slightly whimsical slant...
...spare, but he was having a love affair with Herendene's wife, which complicated matters. Upshot was that Hoxsie sold to the Providence company and Perry made a discretionary retreat to Europe. Mary Herendene's husband discovered a revealing billet doux from her lover. Hoxsie gave up hopeless farming and got the fishing boat he had pined for, but he hardly liked the sight of the cheap new houses springing up in his old fields. No one was very happy. Even 224 pages of doggerel would be an achievement, and Hoxsie Sells His Acres is often far from...