Word: hopelessness
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They, his wife and two children, were quiet, because just before writing his hopeless testament he had murdered them...
Curious doctors at the General Hospital heard the rumor, saw patients who had been given up as hopeless comfortably chatting in the streets. They came to see this Polsjchak, who told them of his remedy. For 20 years he had been studying tuberculosis and cancer, just as the neighbors said. Now he had invented a medicine which he called "abjinin," a mixture of vegetable juices and etheric oils which would cure internal cancer in three to six months; cutaneous cancer in a matter of weeks. The doctors were impressed. They invited Polsjchak to work at the hospital. So satisfactory were...
Whether or not he thrice refused a coronet, George William Norris did not announce last week. But he announced something else. He said he was hopeless of a Third Party ticket this year. He said that the Issue was the Power Trust. He said he favored non-partisan support of "progressive" Congressional candidates this year, regardless of party ticket. He assumed that "nothing new will transpire in the Presidential contest." Hence the thing for "progressives" to do is to increase their balance of power in Congress and as soon as possible amend the Constitution to provide for direct popular election...
...Clevelander who led the late Senator Willis' presidential campaign and inveighed bitterly against the invading forces of Hooverism, withdrew his candidacy for the U. S. Senate in favor of Representative Theodore Elijah Burton, venerable Hoover leader. The Thompson withdrawal meant little in itself since the Thompson candidacy looked hopeless against Mr. Burton, who has been a distinguished Senator before now (1905-15). But the Thompson cry for party harmony ("which I prize more Highly," he said) was expected to bring downstate Willis sheep into the Hoover fold, where all will be far safer when the Smith campaign enters Ohio...
...Benton. They considered Brooklyn, strong in the box, ragged afield, indifferent at bat; Chicago, lacking an infield of major league quality; Cincinnati, slipped from its lead because of injuries to valuable pitchers; Pittsburgh with no one in the box except "Spitballer" Grimes; Boston in seventh place, apparently hopeless, but having one great player, perhaps the greatest in the National League, famed in the field, sensational at bat; and Philadelphia in the "cellar." Keeping this player in mind, critics considered the American League clubs, lined up smoothly behind the Yankees: at Philadelphia a galaxy of famed veterans; a young St. Louis...