Word: dismal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wells: " K. M.'s perfectly lovely mind has lit a whole dismal day for me. . . . I put K. M. above the world of effort and compromise...
...brewery-bootleggers grew to 15, and plans were laid for inducing 50 to join the criminal ring. But the bootleggers insisted it was time to begin operations. Finally he could put them off no longer. "That night the underworld rejoiced. A damp and fetid night it was ... a dreary, dismal night, hung on the edge of the calendar, where approaching Winter touches the garments of departing Autumn." At dawn laden trucks rolled out of the brewery gates?and prohibition agents snapped them up, arresting all the bootleggers. Weeks later a friend approached the agent who had schemed...
...called for. The first is general. Although many of the line cuts, such as the unsigned comic heading for the contents on page 4, are cleverly executed, on the whole the drawings are amateurish, and some are conspicuously inadequate. The reviewer is plunged into gloom by the dismal title page which introduces him to the subject of scholarships (page 237), and the headings for pages 194 and 198 are clumsily drawn. Not that artistic talent is unusually lacking in the class of 1926, for on the whole the cuts in this book are at least as effective as those...
...battle in Scotland for the Walker Cup told of but one American victory out of four matches. The necessity of winning at least five and a half of the remaining eight matches in order to keep the 'scutcheon clear and bring the cup once more to America formed a dismal prospect. Yet no more dismal than the prospects of Ouimet, when he faced his last five holes through the rain in the famous championship at Brookline years ago. He did then what was considered the impossible, and yesterday he and his team-mates repeated the process...
Superficially the crew situation may appear dismal. Admittedly the present system of control by the Rowing Committee puts a coach between Scylla and Charybdis. And obviously, to all who watched Saturday's race between University and Freshman crews, the Freshmen were distinctly better. But there are factors to be considered, which the layman, who demands not form but "guts", should understand before condemning this year's crew as hopeless...