Word: dismal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beautiful and Damned" would be a pretty dismal story to read but the author fortunately rises above his story. No matter how distorted his viewpoint he has that one essential quality--readability. You may become disgusted with his opinions but, in most cases, you will read to the end. In the first place he has a style which, however, careless it may be, moves, and in the second place he is by no means without a sense of humor. It may be a meaningless world but it has amusing aspects and Fitzgerald has a keen eye for them. Sometimes there...
Last spring Congress took the first step to remedy the dismal failure of the Federal Board for Vocational Training by considering a plan very similar to that contained in the Rogers Bill. No report was made on the plan until the last day of the session and the bill was lost. Consequently a whole summer intervened before this new bill was introduced. Unless Congress will shake off its present lethargy of "politics" and open its eyes to popular appeal this bill will suffer a similar fate...
...know anything about the "socialist labor" and "single tax" parties. And I strongly suspect that most "respectable" people feel just about as I do. If they disagree it is only in degree of contempt. Why then should those of us who are not professionally obliged to keep up the dismal pretense of enthusiasm about the wretched business--why should we waste time talking or thinking about the election, and why should we bother to vote? E. P. CHASE...
Often have we, surveying the unlovely aspect of the Square, thought how sordid, mean, material it was; how often have we longed for any change anything that would make the dull glitter of Massachusetts avenue a little less stupid, anything to brighten the gloom of this dismal village...