Word: woefulness
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Once again the screen presents the woeful problem of a settled married couple lifted from their wedlock by an unhappy legal circumstance. "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" is the story of a man and wife with marital tribulations of more than ordinary calibre. Decked out with an unusually insinuating script, and Robert Montgomery and Carole Lombard to talk it up as they and few others could, it lacks only some action to make it one of the best bits of bedroom propaganda of the year...
...adventure last week, and the Greek Army joined the Finnish on a history page reserved for little fellows who knew how to fight for home and honor. But the first round seldom decides a prize fight, and beneath little Greece's jubilation lay some grim facts. Greece faced woeful shortages of almost everything that it takes to fight a war. She lacked meat, wheat, oil, coal, sugar. Her chief sources of income-shipping and tourists-were no more. Her best customer of wine, olive oil and tobacco was Germany. Only Turkey and Great Britain can help...
...legislative originality. His extraordinary political courage has enabled him to confess his inadequacy to improve the conditions which he attacks. Belching sedative tablets from his guns of oratory, Senator Taft in his last two speeches, the only ones in which he has "dealt" with foreign policy, has betrayed woeful incompetence to frame the simplest of arguments. Even with a brilliant record at Yale, his logic had not yet reached the "pigs is pigs" stage...
...letter appearing in the Harvard Crimson of May 9 is an obvious masterpiece of evasiveness manifesting a woeful lack of logic on the part of a pseudo-philosopher...
...sunk by her captain's orders, a woeful sight to see, No more shall rise Germania's pride, the Admiral Graf Spee...