Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DRAWINGS FROM Punch, a collection of 150 cartoons by 50 of the artists who give Britain's venerable funny magazine its polite kick. Punch's jesters like the same simple lines, merrily exaggerated expressions, and hapless characters as their U.S. counterparts: bumbling doctors, madcap crooks, chesty admirals and busty dowagers...
...Leverett football team moved to the top of the House league with an impressive 14 to 0 victory over Lowell yesterday, while Dunster topped hapless Winthrop...
...hapless Giants and luckless Indians recently faced the realization that they are good second-place teams, while the top-running Dodgers and Yankees respectively headed toward their first and fourth straight pennant races. For the Bums, the excitement is all over until the World Series starts next Wednesday; the Yankees still can blow the pennant by losing their last four games, but chances are they'll gain a berth opposite Brooklyn sometime before this weekend...
...another baseball contest yesterday, the Detroit Tigers squeezed into the record books by becoming the first cellar team in American League history to draw more than a millio nfans at home. The near equally hapless Browns...
Overnight, Herbert Hoover was turned into a scapegoat for the economic sins of a whole generation. Charles Michelson, the Democrats' razor-tongued publicity genius, pilloried him before millions as a hapless homunculus responsible for all the nation's ills. Disgruntled citizens called the dear departed boom the Hoover boom. The depression, Democrats jeered, was the Hoover depression. The huddled shanties near the railroad tracks, where ragged men cooked garbage over old oil drums, were called Hoovervilles...