Word: haggard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cochet's victory-how he popped back cannonball serves, how he outthought Tilden, how with the first ball played he started Tilden on a long run from the backcourt to the net and from baseline to baseline, a run that never stopped until Tilden, gasping, twisted his haggard face into a smile and shook hands with his conqueror-critics will hold forth for some time to come. Indeed, critics and officials alike were so interested in the champion's debacle that they forgot about everything else, and William Johnston and Jean Borotra started their match an hour late...
...list of the popular English writers of the day would show more college men than non-collegians," declared Mr. Ellsworth, "but among the latter are many whose books we like: Arnold Bennett, Gilbert Chesterton, William Black, Joseph Conrad, Rider Haggard, John Masefield, George More, Eden Phillotts, Israel Zangwell, and Bernard Shaw. H. G. Wells took honors in zoology in a college of science; Robert Hichens attended a college of music; Thomas Hardy acquired an education at evening classes in King's College, London; Kipling went to the United Service College, not an institution famous for turning out literati George Bernard...
Foreign Minister Benes of Czechoslovakia presided. Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain of Britain was observed to relax in his chair and absently puff a cigaret. Foreign Minister Briand of France evidently at ease, beamed. Newsgatherers remembered that in March both Sir Austen and M. Briand sat haggard, tense, nerve-wracked at the Council table...
Premier Henri Jaspar stood up, haggard and grave, before the Chamber last week. "You must help us!" he cried to the 78 Catholics, 78 Socialists and 23 Liberals whose nicely interbalanced votes have so often deadlocked the Chamber against itself...
Former Premier Macdonald (rising from the opposition bench, haggard, distraught): "I wish to dissociate myself individually and officially from anything tending to degrade the House of Commons in the eyes of the country. I am speaking for my colleagues as well as myself...