Word: pitifull
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
A laxity uncharacteristic of this nation is doing more to develop ill will toward the U.S., and hunger and starvation for the people of Europe, than citizens of the U.S. dare to realize. How can we honestly sit down to the table with our consciences and not make sacrifices to...
Elizabeth Ross acts the part of Bernadette Soubirous, passingly well; her voice goes up and down in the right places, and she assumes the proper expressions at the proper times. But the Bernadette of the play simply is not the same pitiful; yet glorious Bernadette whom Franz Werfel portrayed in...
Most of the major-leaguers who fell for the bait of outsize, tax-free Mexican salaries were Latins who did not look too bad under the pitiful lights of wartime U.S. ball, but would spend a lot of their time on the bench in 1946. Best known: the Giants'...
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were well known to German Kathe Kollwitz; she had sketched them from life for more than 50 years. When Death finally turned on her in Germany's Harz Mountains last September, she was 78, worn out, and nearly blind. But her prints and...
"The iron curtain [of censorship] is in the control of governments. It is the people in these areas who die for want of bread. ... It is the people-pitiful, suffering, starving millions of them facing what will probably be the blackest, cruelest winter since the age of plagues-from whom...