Word: hopelessness
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...father, a true lover of democracy, can look upon the present horrors and still find cause for optimism. He feels that Russia will rise triumphant out of chaos to become the United States of Russia. In these days when that nation is either a complete myth or a hopeless human entanglement to most of us, it is a welcome guest who can speak with authority on conditions as they are, and as they may be in a better time to come...
...playlet "Kisses" of seven years ago, will be woefully disappointed in its present counterpart "Wednesday at the Ritz". An ingenious setting whereby the stage is divided into "Parlour, Bedroom, and Bath" forms the background for a farce which is marked by the comparative novelty of its plot and the hopeless commonplaceness of its lines. A long way from the "all-star" bill of seven years past...
...allowance must be made for the size of the family, bad debts, depreciation on real estate, losses in speculation and so on--(for more details, see the recent tax law!). The plan seems to belong to the category of those which look perfectly sound on paper, but which are hopeless when they come to be tried out--only this one does not even look sound on paper...
...before you are thirty or thirty-five, you should be laying your foundation. Then and then alone may you be expected to reap abundantly. Exceptions are constantly arising, but to gamble upon the fact that you are an exception is more serious than risking your last dollar on a hopeless chance...
...quite time that it is hopeless to think of reducing armaments without first removing the cause of war. President Harding is to be commended in emphasizing the importance of the Far Eastern question, and it is significant that he attacks this problem with much greater boldness. He comes out definitely for the open door in China and the abolition of the Anglo-Japanese alliance...