Word: disheartened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waif like Ching-Ching, as seasoned child cinemaddicts are well aware, is to find rich and personable parents to adopt her. Randall is unmarried and the only eligible girl on board, Susan Parker (Alice Faye), is already engaged and traveling with her future mother-in-law. This does not dishearten Ching-Ching. She shows Randall and his valet (Arthur Treacher) how to sing a lullaby, goes sightseeing in Hongkong and voices a few proverbs, which detective picture addicts will recognize as from the Chanese. Sample: "A child without parents is like a ship without a rudder." When Susan Parker...
...team" of the first magnitude, Minnesota had gained by rushes the astounding total of 2,418 yd., while holding its opponents to a paltry 533. But not even that yardage figure gave a full-sized picture of Coach Bernie Bierman's jerseyed juggernaut. To prevent overconfidence and to dishearten and weaken its rivals, Minnesota has adopted the stratagem of giving the ball to its opponents during the first half by consistently kicking on second down. Not until the second half does the Bierman team open up with its prodigious line drives, cunning spinners, adroit passes. This style of play...
...Voto tells his first class that those present are expected to get B's, otherwise they wouldn't have been chosen for the course. The C which rolls around at November may, therefore, dishearten the hopeful author and considerably deflate his ego. He will discover, however, that Mr. De Voto's bark is worse than his bite. Despite the wilting comments which decorate his themes the student will find his marks gradually improving, as he learns to purify his technique and eliminate errors of syntax which would, to quote an average comment, "disgrace a student in English...
...Pundit Steed, observing that "Ramsay MacDonald . . . may be unaware how subtly and swiftly public trust in him has ebbed during the past twelvemonth" and that "Stanley Baldwin's . . . passion for self-effacement and appearance of political indolence estrange and dishearten the younger conservatives," concluded: "At no time in the past 40 years have the British people been so leaderless as they are today...
...hares and the pheasants in the wood should not be so curiously, however, if the shooter will find and kill the oldest wild boar which is jumped out of the wood, such game will be one of the greatest windfall. Auburn Automobile seems to be felt lonesomely and dishearten without a friend, if so; will seek as 'where is my brother?' Better to calls when one points away is small...