Word: whimperative
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...Manhattan by Constantine George Cotzias, 49, Minister-Governor (Mayor) of Athens until the city fell last April. If Mayor Cotzias were in U.S. politics he would inevitably be known as Big Con, for he is 6 ft. 4 in. tall and when he steps on the scales they whimper out 286 lb. He has blazing brown eyes and a magnificent head. With him are his wife, who headed the hospitals of Athens during the gallant six-month struggle, and three children, including his strapping, 23-year-old son, George, who had one more week to go on his medical studies...
Four times Chloe fetched her mother a drink, each time drank a little water herself. On one trip to the sink she heard a whimper from Marquis, who was lying on the kitchen floor. "I went back and asked mother if I shouldn't put Marquis out of his misery. She nodded, so I went and hit him about three times, until he was still." The last glass of water Chloe got she had to pour down her mother's throat because Lolita Davis had "gone out". Chloe washed, dressed, and went out to telephone her father...
...sick of a war which is never won, eaten with worry for home and family. If they try to desert, Chinese fall on them and kill them. Missionaries in Shansi report that Japanese often steal inside mission compounds to cry, or come to the gates to whimper and beg for little comforts. Superstitions are epidemic. Nearly every dead Japanese soldier has on him a charm, worn in life to ward off death. Often a man draws about himself a magic circle (the round of his life is full; no escape) and puts a bullet in his head. Instead of cremating...
News From Rome, the famed one-sheet poster newspaper of the Fascist Party, is pasted up weekly on walls all over Italy, claims 30,000,000 readers. In copies reaching the U. S. last week, News From Rome exhorted: "Don't whimper if you lack coffee. Be thankful that the Duce took steps in time to provide enough grain-for all. . . . Don't get the idea of hoarding anything at home, especially food. . . . Leave in the banks any money you have deposited. . . . Leave news from foreign sources alone. . . . Politics is not your business. Let Him-at Rome...
...baby to the neighbors. Then they started for home with little Robert, wrapped snugly in his blankets, tucked in a corner of the back seat. Suddenly the car jolted, the baby fell off the seat. When Mr. Didier stopped the car and picked him up, no wail or whimper came from the tightly wrapped flannel bundle. "He's suffocated, he's dead," cried the father...