Word: bleakness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toast" offered John Harvard by the undergraduate correspondent of the Yale Alumni Weekly is of that variety known hereabouts as thin and well buttered. Its details are sadistic, its bases dadaistic: and the impression left after reading it is that of a blue hangover, a bleak Monday morning in New Haven. Nevertheless it is amusing, just as many slightly idiotic things are amusing...
...represent Dickens, there is a copy of the first edition of "Bleak House" and also several letters to his friends. A note from George Cruikshank comments on the cartoons for the Pickwick Papers...
...bubbles without fuming is gratifying to audiences who are waiting to see Herr Alexander Korda (director) and Frau Marie Corda (actress)* in a forthcoming screen version of The Private Life of Helen of Troy. The heroine of Madame Wants No Children is a newlywed French wife whom the bleak sphinx, Venetian gondolas and an uxorious spouse cannot dislodge from night clubs. Even at home in Paris her life is a succession of jazz blares, pale lights and glittering stuffed shirts. Eventually, however, she joggles down to productive domesticity, mindful that when Baby does arrive, she will have her own night...
...only sympathize with the unfortunates. Theirs is an unhappy lot; left alone, or very nearly so to struggle with the Teutonic ogre, their misery demands the pity of their more fortunate brothers. Life for others is a medley of train schedules and sailing dates; for them it is a bleak and barren desert of modul auxiliaries...
...this book Mrs. Millin untangles the dark pattern of its sound. Going as far back as the legendary days when Phoenician sailors stared at the bleak Cape coasts, and going into the forests where the natives have the roots of their semi-civilization, she has brought to her study of the contemporary situation a wide and valuable background...