Word: dismal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discerning, therefore, find in Mr. R. L. Goldberg the "disillusioned spirit of the grim, sharp-witted Schopenhauer"; in fact only "a thin veil of hilarity" disguises the very dismal outlook behind all of the so-called "funny" sections. But the genius of the artists has never received the recognition it deserves. It is time for the public to realize that "the funnies are animated with the spirit of Aristophanes, of Horace, of Rabelais, of Congreve, and of Sheridan, of Shaw and of W. S. Gilbert...
...impersonate the "college boy" perfectly--so the damage will be irreparable. Walters will hide their faces, and what will be much worse, their stores of liquors, whenever a "college boy" heaves in sight; proprietors will see that he is conducted to the farther-most table in the most dismal corner; and patrons will eye him askance with that contemptuous respect ordinarily reserved for enforcers...
...unscriptural preaching of the stated supply of the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton, I desire to give up my pew in the church. The few Sundays that I have free from evangelical work to spend with my family are too precious to be wasted in listening to such dismal, bilious travesty of the gospel. We want to hear about Christ, the Son of God and the Son of Man, not about the Fundamentalists and Modernists, the only subject on which your stated supply seems to have anything to say and on which most of what he says is untrue...
...rapped a wealthy miser on the pate with his quarter-staff and removed his pouch, he usually gave the money, or a large share of it, to the poor. It is much the same beneficient, kindly spirit which pervades the soul of the famous Polish bandit, Mucha. Nothing the dismal condition of his country's finances, he has made out an inventory of his year's "swag", and sent the list plus the income tax upon the amount to the government...
...should like to congratulate the CRIMSON on its ability to kick up a row in the Boston and New York papers. First there was that dismal affair of "Johnny Harvard", for which the CRIMSON was largely responsible. Now comes this ridiculous Ku Klux scare, which is at present going the rounds of the country's newspapers. Personally I think there is no danger, but if there is, it would be far better not to publish it to the country at large. The CRIMSON should remember that anything about Harvard is good copy for a great many papers, and should...