Word: dearth
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...familiar martial strains of "Wintergreen for President," Manhattan first-nighters applauded happily. They recalled what a fine show Of Thee I Sing had been, leaned back in their seats to enjoy its sequel. But when the curtain fell on Let 'em Eat Cake there was an embarrassing dearth of applause. Critics and spectators went out grumbling that the nation's great musicomedy quadrivirate had lain down on their job, had served up a poorly warmed-over dish. If Let 'em Eat Cake was to repeat its predecessor's two-year run, its authors would have...
...loss of effusions such as those of the youthful Lincoln Steffens. What an opening there is for editors who can today, blud-goon graft and corruption with sweetness and light, as others did of yore, all with the accompaniment of sounding trumpets and falling walls. There is an intolerable dearth of succulent revelations and fat, juicy accusation, of harrowing, sordid, revolting, delightful delineation of sin and portraits of the vicious, shameless, guilt and scarlet sinners. There is a lack of pleasant self-righteous indictment done in the Lord's vineyard...
...which convinces the natives of the Bible Belt that they are the Lord's chosen people. In a romantic interpretation this is the spirit of the soil, mystical, but nourishing and real. In a materialistic psychology the observer might merely comment that the hinds realize that in prosperity or dearth, fair weather or foul, their lands will feed them and save them from the evils to which their stupid incompetence would lead in harsher circumstances...
...dearth of money might have brought real suffering had not big employers like General Motors and Chrysler arranged to cash their own pay checks. Utility and insurance companies waived penalties for late payments. The Post Office Department rushed $5,000,000 from Washington to cover withdrawals from postal savings accounts and to honor money orders. Western Union and Postal Telegraph brought in cash from adjoining States to handle a flood of funds telegraphed to Detroiters...
...although an annex for opidemies and contagious diseases was built many years ago, it has not been provided with telephone service. Every effort is made to provide the best possible care for each case, but the fact that there is no resident physician, and that there is a dearth of private rooms makes the care of seriously ill patients difficult, it not inadequate...