Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feel insulted if they do not get inscribed copies of his books, but never acknowledge them if they do. But his clearest picture of the literary jungle is in his account of his first success, Nocturne, with the "tonic" letter it won from Shaw: "I found it a damned dismal book...
There is the germ of a good idea in these dismal remarks, but only a germ and an anaemic one at that, for it is too obvious that the writer knows almost nothing about contemporary college life, at least in any Eastern university. His little utopia, by college spirit out of Bryn Mawr, overlooks the fundamental fallacy of its existence, which is that college spirit is too worn out and decrepit to beget more than a weakling doomed to an early death--even with the assistance of Bryn Mawr. It does exist at a football game, and in a certain...
Because of their dismal showing in the Holy Cross meet two weeks ago and their failure to show any great improvement in the handicap meet last week, the Crimson harriers can not be rated as top heavy favorites, especially since the New Hampshire contingent is usually strong enough to carry a decided threat to Harvard. Little trouble is expected from Dartmouth...
...used as a false premise from which are drawn conclusions probably equally false, i refuse to be a sacrificial goat for, of all people, the Class of 1911 to pile on their own abysmal mediocrities. I am not now, and never have been a member of that dismal class. Thank God, I am 1910, and I suggest that if 1911 wants to wash its own very dirty linen in public, it at least abstain from splashing its cleaner neighbors...
...pianist was finally found and the performance of Impressions of Buenos Aires reached its dismal end, with seven minutes of radio time still to fill. Iturbi rejected Ringwall's suggestion that he conduct an encore, stalked off stage, returned only to take a bow when the orchestra applauded him back...