Word: woeful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neglect. ?The play had successful short runs last season in Philadelphia, Washington, Boston. It was conceived and written originally by Frank C. Reilly, whose regular business is electric signs, and rewritten by Cosmo Hamilton, British playwright. More than 20 years ago, tall De Wolf Hopper appeared in a woeful musical comedy based on the Pickwick Papers...
...scored 76, next round, then a woeful 84, finished with an 80, tied for sixth place. Sarazen won the tournament by eleven strokes with 290. Potter retired to his water hazards. Experts are on the watch for his next tournament. He is only...
...Story, told episodically, is perhaps more woeful than necessary. John Rain, the son, after a gassing in France, goes away with the married daughter of his father's one scarlet woman, Tannis. On their westbound train it is revealed that John will probably die soon of tuberculosis. Rain Sr., discovers the flatulence of his faith, but, lacking courage to start afresh, keeps his job and remains, like his congregation, sheepish and grey of soul...
...reproduce life .-.s Mr. Sinclair has seen it lived in Southern California, and mentally f oundationed - or undermined - to show Capitalism as the causa of all that is horrid in the Golden West, Communism as the hope of all that is hopable there by Author Sinclair and the woeful workers whose Moses he is. Like many bores, Mr. Sinclair is genial; like more, he has investi gated his subject. So the charac ters are appealing - J. Arnold Ross, onetime muleteer, rough-hewn oil baron; his son, Bunny, honest by his lights, which shift from the Kliegs of Hollywood...
...arguments of the ghostly advisors of the Church, both Catholic and Protestant, are four. Two are puerile; two show a woeful ignorance of the one text-book their profession requires. They say that birth control is "unnatural". Of course it is, like clothing and houses, like cooked food, like medicines, like all arts and sciences, like everything which distinguishes man from the lower animals, like marriage itself. More frequently still they quote the in- junction to Noah, "Be fruitful and multiply," given, according to tradition, when the people of the earth were eight in number. It is difficult...