Word: piteous
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...very old and broken-down horse attracted the attention of Winifred, Duchess of Portland, in London some months ago. Touched by the creature's piteous air, Her Grace bought it on the spot. Last fortnight she displayed it to her royal house guests, who beheld a nag still old, but now sleek and roly-poly...
...widows between the ages of 65 and 70, crowded into British branch post offices, last week, in piteous, hopeful, halting ranks, numbering some 450,000. Sympathetic post people registered the widows' names and proofs of age and widowhood in mossy ledgers. Then to each bona fide applicant they passed out "ten bob" (10 shillings...
...moment later, Mr. Lloyd George, comfortably replete, heard from the man who had stolen his coat piteous words: "Lor', Guv'nor, Hi didn't knaow 'twus yern. ... Hi cadged hit cuz Hi wus caold. . . . S'help...
...Piteous Plight. The answer came from Cape Town, South Africa, where there arrived last week from London three potent officials of the Diamond Trust: Lieutenant Colonel Solomon Barnato Joel, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer and Sir Abe Bailey. Proceeding to the Ministry of Mines and Industries these gentlemen figuratively rent their garments. Cried millionaire Solomon B. Joel piteously: "Diamonds will become as common as artificial pearls if the present unrestricted output from 'independent' alluvial diggings continues. . . . Something must be done to alter the present situation. Why, the alluvial diggers are now actually selling more diamonds than the great producers...
...more do young hearts melt, as once all young hearts did, at the piteous gaze in the liquid eyes of the fleet and noble steed, Black Beauty. That steed was passed and lost in dust by The Motor Boys...