Word: patheticism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Well, basically he revealed the truth that many of us who have played baseball-even as kids-suspected all along; baseball players, like dentists, or doctors, or Presidents, are human. They enjoy ogling girls. They get drunk. Some of them are fascists, politically and personally. Owners cheat the ball-player...
Crowds gathered outside the Boston police station and Brighton district court this afternoon awaiting the arrival of robbery suspect Lefty Gilday. Outside the police station, about 300 persons watched the suspect as he entered the station under a heavy armed guard. When he emerged a few hours later, the crowd...
The Wild Child. In the forest of Aveyron in 1801, a savage animal was captured. It was a boy of about twelve, origins unknown, with vulpine instincts and capacities. This Mowgli-like creature became renowned in his own time; a hundred years later, he was an object of fascination for...
For two years, Kate worked on learning to be a sculptor and how to pay the bills that wouldn't wait. "I got very good at pathetic letters." She moved to Japan in 1961; during her two years there she had her first artistic success in a show of...
But the more prevalent danger is that relatively affluent whites will increasingly abandon the public schools to the blacks and poor whites. There are possibly 300 white academies ready to open or reopen in Georgia, 100 in Mississippi, at least one in most of the counties of South Carolina. Many...