Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston Symphony Orchestra is on tour this week and so the city's chief musical adornment will not he heard until Friday the fourteenth when Dmitri Mitropoules is to be the guest conductor. However, this does not mean that there is a dearth a concerts. On the contrary, there are no less than nine musical events in Boston and Cambridge in the ensuing week...
Though Editor Martin, who suffered from malaria, retired for a few years to build up his health, there was no dearth of energetic contributors. From the magazine's point of view, most important of these was Charles Dara Gibson. To Life for $4 he sold his first contribution: A dog outside his kennel baying the moon.* Encouraged by a publisher who was also an artist, Gibson was joined in Life's early pages by such celebrated draughtsmen as E. W. Kemble (funny Negroes), Palmer ("Brownies") Cox, F. G. Attwood...
...Committee was confronted with 11,000 pictures, most of them bigger than usual, a great number of industrial and allegorical subjects and surprisingly few landscapes. Academicians blamed the dearth of landscapes on the past year's bad British weather which kept painters indoors...
Suffering from an ominous dearth of veteran attack men, the Varsity Lacrosse team takes the road next week for a stiff vacation schedule. Fans can't look forward to much spectacular play from the inexperienced first line of Sophomores, according to Neil Stanley, coach of the varsity squad. But with a defence of old timers, the team may be able to hold...
...boldest front-page headlines the tradesheet Variety last week chronicled the dearth of Broadway musical shows, fixed the blame on the Hollywood songwriting mills' which offer big pay and security to the tunesters who got their start in Manhattan's Tin Pan Alley. When Jiibilee and At Home Abroad closed fortnight ago, only four musicomedies remained on Broadway, the mid-season low since the beginning of the War. Simultaneously. Variety's radio log showed that the tune most played on the air was I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket, one of Irving Berlin...