Word: thanklessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...without the appearance of incongruity that might be expected. Walter Gilbert, her husband is alternately the victim of the pity and derision of the others and on the whole manages to bear it well; and in fairness it must be said that the role of gullible husband is a thankless one. As Tarlow, the perfect lover, Mr. Darney is indisputably good, doing double service as the final agent of the forces of justice and as a never failing source of comic relief. Miss Roach his a hard task as the heartless thief of love and husbands and does it well...
...this war was a disagreement over the boundary dividing Lithuania and Poland at the time both these countries received their liberty. Immediately war was prevented by the League of Nations, which marked off a neutral zone to keep the two nations on friendly terms and then took on the thankless task of settling their dispute. After much deliberation the Council of the League determined on Feb. 3 the course of the demarcation line and ordered Poland to occupy her portion of the neutral zone. A. desultory war has been in progress ever since...
Disillusionment is the keynote of the age. History refutes herself, and under the merciless glare of modern research our once-revered idols totter on feet of veriest clay. Mark Twain started the thankless job. Unflinchingly he exposed the Father of our country, showing not only that the magnificent truth about the cherry tree was a sagacious bit of publicity which led directly to the Presidency, but that his supplementary statement that "he could not tell a lie" was even more carefully calculated to preserve his name to perpetuity. Now a beacon-light of politics is shattered when we learn that...
Today's announcement from the H. A. A. brings to a head dissatisfaction which has been festering for several years and which found expression last fall to no effect. No one underestimates the thankless work of assigning big-game tickets, trying to fit 35,000 people into 29,500 seats. But it is more than exasperating to find, after the years of practice the Athletic Association has had, the same makeshift tactics which brought annoyance to everyone and disaster to many last year. In the future crowds at the football games will be as great or greater than they...
Besides, monitors cannot be expected to be omniscient. Even in our civilized community, there are still an unscrupulous few whose slogan is "outs at any cost". As long as the instinct to "get away with something" remains, the monitor's task will be a thankless one and consistent impartiality cannot be expected...