Word: piteous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...except for Buchanan, Douglas would have become President and the Civil War post-poned and possibly altogether averted. The Douglas letters reveal the existence of a strong Union sentiment throughout the South as late as April 15, 1861.? Important figures of the new Confederacy kept writing Douglas in piteous appeal to work out a plan of compromise. . . . The Civil War was an avoidable...
...else on the bed!" Kalonika stole the helmet from Athena's head, concealing it beneath her gown. Miss Bainter: "Why, Kalonika, you weren't pregnant last night." Miss Hopkins: "But I didn't know it last night!" Indicative of the plight of the men was the piteous condition of Kinesias (Ernest Truex). He fidgeted, pranced and pleaded with tantalizing Miss Alden. He drove his spear into the ground, he waved his arms, he bellowed. But until peace was made, the women were adamant. Followed a jubilee, with dancers, music, lights and shouting united in a single impulse...
...sick. Anxious, sympathetic Earl Russell sat up with her. She howled, he soothed. She whined, he stroked; and she gratefully, feebly licked his hand. Midnight passed. She twitched, shuddered and looked at him with piteous brown eyes. He could not go to bed. When dawn came and then day, he could hardly eat his breakfast-with the old dog perhaps dying. "Hrrm, may I remind Your Lordship," ventured the Russells' sympathetic but firm butler, "that Your...