Word: woeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George, South Carolina's Smith and Byrnes, Alabama's Bankhead. Gloomily they told the President that unless the New Deal does something new, different and soon for cotton, the South will suffer its worst economic 'blow since the Civil War. They then sketched Cotton's woeful case history...
...Reynolds published the woeful information last week, and accompanied it with hopeful advice from the head of the Albert Soiland Radiological Clinic of Los Angeles. Dr. Soiland, 61, has been using x-rays for 38 years. As a result the skin of his hands is thick and swollen. Hopeless of curing them, he long tried to soothe them with various ointments and lotions. Dr. Soiland sails yachts in his leisure time. Last year it dawned on him that his hands felt better after being doused in salt water. He at once experimented in his laboratory with wet salt dressings, found...
...more disheartening spectacles connected with the Harvard lining halls is the undignified and precipitate entrance at five-thirty of those who cannot bring their baser impulses into conformity with civilized eating habits and eating hours. Similarly woeful is the balaten epiphany at seven o'clock of those who would cast off barbarism, but cannot, because of college regulations. The barbarism I refer to is rightly named seven is just the beginning of the proper eating hour; and as for five-thirty, it is a wallowing in the fleshpots and an abomination before the Lord. Briefly, the time at which...
...reduced him, establish his independence by a rescue. Laura Hope Crews who played a serious version of the same role in The Silver Cord does as well as anyone possibly could with Mrs. Colgate. The picture is a minor injustice to her as well as to Zasu Pitts, whose woeful eyes, Lady Macbeth hands and forlorn nervous meanings have made her celebrated as Hollywood's only sad comedienne...
...wild mountain land above Nice last week there were strange goings-on. A woeful old knight was seen riding a ribby white horse as seedy as himself. He encountered a band of brigands, attacked them singlehanded. He mistook the sails of a windmill for threatening giants, charged into them to his own near- destruction. After him on muleback plodded a faithful red-faced squire, but with all his remonstrating he had no more control over his crack-brained sire than did the cinemen trying to film the proceedings. The red-faced squire was old George Robey, famed British comedian, playing...