Word: direful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After keeping its hands off for three days, the dean's office intervened late yesterday afternoon to warn the organizers of dire consequences if the rally got out of hand. Alarmed at this, the latter made a futile, thought sincere, last-minute attempt to call the whole thing off. In the end the team and the band, the two elements which might have lent respectability to the gathering, were kept away, and the crowd was left without a program of any sort. Finally, after the rally had nearly exhausted itself in a good deal of running about the streets...
...Deal, pronounces his opposition, and then comes the electric shock of Professor Sprague's desertion and condemnation of the Administration. Now the Federal Reserve Advisory Council intones a sombre, if hollow, denunciation of a "currency of fluctuating value," while the New England Council points to a dire future if there is no stabilization of currency. No doubt we are in for a heavy salvo of such pronouncements, which will be as frantic and foreboding as they are uncomprehending...
With heavy hearts and dire foreboding the Administration looks ahead to the meeting of Congress next January, realizing that the opening of the grousing season cannot be long delayed. Already keen ears in Washington detect the cocking of shotguns all over the country, a sound unpleasing to the natives. Henry Ford has rallied about him a brave band of those who, for various reasons fear the implications of enforced codes. The farm bloc, temporarily placated by the burnt offering of a devaluated dollar, can be expected to provide a great deal of clamor and possibly some force if the latest...
Aside from this quibbling, Mr. Wells' latest book is undoubtedly the best that he has produced in many years. It is a resume of the most dire forecasts and the brightest predictions for the future. It shows the striking power of imagination absent from such night-mares as "The Bulpington of Blup," and the ideas presented in it are worthy of more than dinner-table consideration. It is absurd to take some portions of it seriously as it is foolish to take others lightly. To appraise it absolutely is impossible till the future reveals its secrets; it is an interesting...
Just why "persons seeking domestic employment are invariably in dire circumstances" is puzzling in the extreme. High wages have been the rule, rather than the exception, for many years...