Word: mope
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both the teen-age Chéri and his between-age Léa, life is over at the end of Act I-and so is the play. Thereafter, the two can only mope while apart, come uneasily together, then part once more. When they meet, they talk too much, weep too much, morali e too much. Between whiles, Chéri chiefly features amusing-looking demireps, whose talk is incredibly dull. Eventually Léa. at 60, reaches the age of content, but Chéri kills himself...
...little steamed and demonstrated with him. So he says, T didn't call you a mope. I mean your pupils ain't woikin' right!' So I says, 'Oh, yeah? What's wrong wit' the way Rocky Marciano is woikin'?' " How was the respiration? "I didn't have none. I kept . . . cool." Was Al's tension all right? "You bet your life it was. As long as I was payin' so much for the checkup, I listened to every woid he said . . . The most disappointin' part . . . was when...
...Admission Blank to Thorndike" by Ralph Maud an old man suffers through a heart attack while a group of people, including a doctor who is "a lecturer at the medical school and doesn't have a State license to practice," sit around and mope. Though it might have happened, the story has such an air of unreality that all belief in its problems or characters vanishes...
...process of law." When Chairman Harold Velde finally interrupted the tirade, Stander said he was shocked that the com mittee didn't want to hear about that kind of subversion. With obvious refer ence to Bandsman Shaw, he rumbled: "I'm not a dupe, dope, mope, moe or schmoe...
...Meals & Mopes. The domain he inherited includes five high schools, eleven junior high schools, 63 elementary schools, a special school for crippled children. It is a $40 million domain that comes alive each morning with the shouts and cries of 56,000 schoolchildren flooding through its classrooms. On the surface it is a casual world of blue jeans and T-shirts, sweaters & skirts, bobby-sox and loafers, of jalopies, motor-scooters, bikes, and a litter of candy-wrappers inside almost every desk. Pupils call each other "meal" or "mope," .tell each other not to be a "squeegie" or a "sizzle...