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Word: piteously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doubtless Mr. Cohen's knowledge of the Soviet situation is most profound: but his statements on Mussollni make plain that his knowledge of Fascism in the U. S. is altogether piteous and incomprehensible coming from one who claims to be well versed in international affairs. Joseph F. Solano...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Red and Black | 12/14/1929 | See Source »

Ripped at last, the envelope gave up this piteous sentence: "I feel myself without help and that my countrymen regard me as a traitor to Irak and a servant of the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAK: Traitor | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Through drear winter months of pregnancy, her mother plotted desperately to avoid the fusillade of village gossip which would destroy the family if once it began. The piteous tearful prisoner sat in a gloomy room with many strands of wool across her lap to excuse her from rising. Few sat with her except M. Allemand, her piano teacher, whose myopic eyes were sharper than anyone imagined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...other hand, what doth it profit a man if he ignores a piteous Lampoon to fling his wit to the night winds of Boston? And how regrettable the spectacle of him who forsakes the scrimmage beneath the goal posts to plunge headlong into the disorderly crush around the sausage and scrambled eggs. Undeniably it is Harvard's business to make men but whether she is to make them purely for the satisfaction of the daughters of leisure in Back Bay remains to be seen. Husbanding the golden Jane has been deplored since the time of Omar, but it may still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIVE US BACK OUR LEGIONS | 10/9/1928 | See Source »

...very old and broken-down horse attracted the attention of Winifred, Duchess of Portland, in London some months ago. Touched by the creature's piteous air, Her Grace bought it on the spot. Last fortnight she displayed it to her royal house guests, who beheld a nag still old, but now sleek and roly-poly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Best Butter | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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