Word: dingier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stage-struck Mildred Gillars had yearned to become an actress, and had been rejected. But last week, at 48, she made the best of a dingier dramatic opportunity-her trial for treason as "Axis Sally." Her silver-grey hair hung in a shoulder-length bob as she entered the Washington courtroom. She wore her unfashionably short dress with an ingenue air. There was a peacock blue scarf at her throat, her long, horseface was dazzlingly tan, her mouth and nails crimson...
...walked out, gaunt and shaken, to surrender Corregidor, Lieut. General Jonathan M. Wainwright did not feel like a hero. As a prisoner of Japan he did not feel like one, either. "Skinny" Wainwright, who could remember the bugle-bright traditions of the U.S. cavalry, learned a dingier drill-to remove his shoes when entering buildings, to bow to his captors. He was allowed no news. Lonely and aging, he could only wonder about how the war was going, and what the nation and the Army thought about him-if they ever did think about...
Joseph Mitchell is as gloomy as only a humorist can be. For years he has been studying, with the prying patience of a botanist, the queer human weeds he finds growing in the dingier interstices of Manhattan's bum-littered Bowery. But Mitchell is saddened when readers of The New Yorker, Esquire and other magazines chuckle at the results of his researches, these 20 profiles and stories, now collected for the first time in book form. For Humorist Mitchell professes to find nothing comic in his wacky human jujubes. He says he does not caricature them. Instead, he describes...