Word: thanklessness
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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...
...taking they do each of us some much-needed good. To the student they normally mean merely more time spent in digging up knowledge about a given subject. To the faculty man, thinking up a new set of questions presents something of difficulty, and correcting blue books is a thankless task at best...
...proverbial "typical Morosco cast" certainly lives up to its name: Trixie Friganza is her own breezy, slangy, domineering self; Charles Ruggles is kept busy pacifying his different lady loves; Herbert Corthell does well in the rather thankless part of the philandering, drink-addicted husband; Dorothy Webb, dainty, lively, and vivacious, frolics through the piece as the heroine should; while the plump Lecia Lucay, the "baby grand," is the one principal blessed with a really fine voice...