Word: direful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor asserted: "Our beloved Anton Lang often complains bitterly to me of the manner in which he was received by the President of the U.S. . . . The President would not hear him out when he wished to tell of our dire sufferings under the Treaty of Versailles. . . . Anton Lang does not like Americans. . . . It is not likely that we Passion Players will accept the invitations which have been offered us to come to America again this year...
Except for Elizabeth Hines and an acrobatic group of chorus girls, the piece is a dire error. It has been adapted from Alice Duer Miller's The Charm School with sedulous aridity of wit. There have been dozens of musical comedies with weak books and strong ankles but few with the contrasts so sharp. If you can stand stretches of ramblings unrelieved to watch Miss Hines and the chorus, now and then, you may like...
Joke-Book. Hearing Mr. MacMillan say that conversation shortages are dire dangers to Arctic explorers (TIME, July 13), some of his friends presented him with a joke-book before he went? 90 sheets of paper each with an alleged joke written out upon it by such folk as Governor Brewster of Maine, Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, Mayor Curley of Boston, Mayor Hylan of New York, Colyumnist Don Marquis, Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton, Actor Charles Winninger, Mrs. Charles Winninger (stage name: Blanche Ring), Publicist Bruce Barton, Jackie Coogan. The collection was entitled A Log of Laughter, One Laugh A Day. Provided...
Last year, he had Mr. Cook and vaudeville actors-fair show. This year he has only the vaudeville actors and the show is a dire display...
...heroic days, now several centuries past, when two opposing armies debouched upon a field of battle, each advanced a herald to warn the other of its aims, the intentness of its purpose, the justice of its cause, the dire results to be expected if the other did not summarily yield and to hold forth the promise that all would be well if its demands were immediately complied with...