Word: piteous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charity, he supplied needy parishioners with loans and groceries, took 1,500 slum children to the seaside every summer, opened two night shelters for homeless unfortunates. For them it was a pity when Crime Accountant Joseph Cook nabbed him on a wretchedly small irregularity of ?7, found his piteous appeals had netted the spanking sum of about ?150,000 in his 17 letter-writing years. Last week the hoary old rascal went to jail...
...grasp each other's hands, fettered as they were. . . . Three and four in a row were hand in hand swaying up and down with the rise and fall of their voices. One old man reached out on each side but could not grasp a hand. His struggles were piteous and affected many beholders. . . . Each one shouted his own name and called the name of his friend...
Total Espionage is 1) an analysis of Nazi methods, organization, successes; 2) a sketch of the piteous failure of the Allies in the same field; 3) a heartening if somewhat thin prognosis based on the awakening of the Western Hemisphere to danger and to action. By its very nature such a book can be neither complete nor wholly reliable. But it is the fullest treatment of an absorbing and important subject so far in World...
...these foreign visitors must have felt urgency in the city's memories. They must have heard echoes of the piteous, patient cry Walter Duranty heard so often in the Samara of two decades...
...chapters, which are perhaps the most inactive and certainly the talkiest in contemporary literature, set up in great detail, with blank and awful irony, the effects of genius upon certain individuals-a secretary of Goethe, young Arthur Schopenhauer's hysterical bluestocking sister, Goethe's tortured, psychically castrated, piteous son-and its equally unpleasant effects upon a whole household and community. The exquisite, shriveling protocols of the formal luncheon are established with a finality, a bland cruelty, at which Marcel Proust might gasp...