Word: haggard
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Followed a description of a Manhattan night club (the Del Fey- formerly the El Fey) in which, among others, sat Michael Arlen, Ethel Barrymore, Gloria Goull Bishop. "There entered," said the Mirror, "a haggard looking and white haired man, his bloated face wreathed in smiles. It was Harry K. Thaw. . . Harry looked long and rudely at Michael Arlen. . . Then the chastiser of little rabbits . . . screeched...
Like his father he is very dark. His face is drawn, almost haggard. Well it might be; for he has been roughly handled of late. He was born in the days before the war?more than 30 years ago? when his father was no one in particular. He lived to see his father become the most powerful figure in Germany. He lived to see his father die less than a year and a half ago. (TIME Apr. 21, 1924). Today Dr. Edmund Hugo Stinnes, eldest son of Hugo, looks out from under his father's black brows, seeing the future...
Naturally the faces of the Stinnes are haggard...
...many weeks haggard M.P.'s have been hearing about it and invariably going out by the same door wherein they went. "It" was the Summer Time (daylight saving) Bill which, if passed by the Lords, will now make it permanently legal for the clock to be put ahead by one hour on the third Sunday in April and moved back on the first Sunday in October...
...stopped by a traffic policeman. At 3 p. m., the limp guests stood up, rejoicing that Cantor J. Briah had begun the ceremony. Came a stern, interrupting voice-that of the cantor of the synagog, one A. Gartenhaus. He forbade the function to proceed unless he conducted it. The haggard wedding guests, frenzied at the threat of another delay, conducted Cantor Gartenhaus to the basement, there throttled him until the couple were united. On leaving the synagog, Cantor Gartenhaus was overtaken, severely pummeled, deprived by violence of six yellow teeth. At 9 p. m., a number of wedding guests were...