Word: distraughtly
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While the Chatterton-Lukas combination is riding on busses and getting wet, his lordship decides to elope with the sister-in-law, and we see him going hell-for-leather through the night. We then hear a crash, and back through the drifting fog comes the distraught figure of the sister-in-law. Next day in the London domicile there is the Chatterton scene, in which her ladyship sacrifices her reputation to save her brother from mortification and despair. We are left with a fleeting glimpse of Mr. Lukas at the wheel of a powerful...
...told about Cordials & Beverages, the green-&-orange liquor store at No. 201 E. 44th St., Manhattan, which has (been doing a thriving, open retail business in intoxicants for the past two months (TIME, Feb. 10 et seq.). One Eaton Lehcirt, undergraduate "Prohibitionist," of Columbia University, wrote him a rowdy, distraught letter in which he detailed a personal visit to Cordials & Beverages, and the purchase for $1.50 of a bottle of Spanish Port which "I would swear was as good as any I have bought in Spain." Threateningly, discourteously, Lehcirt asked President Hoover, in effect, what he proposed to do about...
This occurred in February; Judge Dewhirst retained Shiloh and its hallowed manse. "Queen" Mary soon purchased ten acres of farm land not far away. There she and her faithful proceeded in quiet procession last week, distraught, injured, but somewhat heartened by thoughts of a new tabernacle, a new beginning...
...Lauren have written a suburban drama, in which the former appears, about a novelist who goes to a hotel with a discontented matron Awhile his wife is out of town. He is duly repentant and places no great significance on his sexual tangent. The wife is rather distraught and decides upon a separation, even though it means unpleasantness for their young son who has been home from preparatory school while the adultery was being exposed. But when matters are explained to the boy he professes a tolerant love for his father, which stimulates the wife to do the same...
...disappointed in love. During a month of honeymooning in Paris the bride conceives a great love for her husband, whereas he gives every indication of still preferring the girl who has jilted him. They play together in Paris and continue in the suburbs of Manhattan. Hope Williams, as the distraught bride, pleads for her husband's love without avail. Then she recalls something her father, a wise old expatriate, had said in Paris: "Love is a compromise in which people sometimes lose grace." This stimulates her to assert her individuality, eliminate the pleading, and thus regain her spouse's devotion...