Word: dejectedness
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Belles Toil. In Manhattan, 300 wailing, dejected gypsies saw a draftee off to camp. Gypsy "King" Steve Kaslov had tried to get him deferred, as a married man. Replied a draft official: "Selective Service is well aware that it is your tribal custom to have the women support the men...
Every now and then one of us gets pneumonia or something and it looks as though a fast plane trip to New York for special treatment is advisable. So a friend, brother, or father, with his anxiety tempered by the hope that a New York specialist can help, runs to...
Before marriage I worked to support myself. After marriage I worked because I was tired of trying to take care of a family of four on $15 a month; tired of seeing my husband come home worn out and dejected after days of job hunting. (Many of these days were...
Straightway the exultant Greeks hopped into captured tanks to chase the retreating Italians up the road to Pogradec, where Italian General Ubaldo Soddu, after cashiering some 50 senior officers, tried to form a secondary defense line. Another Greek pursuit column harried the Italian retreat toward Moskopole ("Perfumed City"). Greek and...
Secretary Early was not on the campaign train when President Roosevelt started out again. Dejected, inconsolable, Steve Early gloomed in Washington, fearful that he might have cost his boss the election. Besides committing a first-rate political blunder, he had misbehaved in a way no decent citizen should. But for...