Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Producers feel, and perhaps rightfully, that they are giving the great mass of theater-goers what they expect. A painstakingly produced picture based on college life as it actually is might be a dismal failure. We college people might not even appreciate it. After all, twentieth century pioneering, especially in the cinema, comes a bit expensive, and the producer, if he wants to stay in business very long, must keep his eye on box office grosses, not on the embittered criticism of a few collegiate purists. He holds his job by the amount of black...
...roads, the Pennsylvania has seen its income, largest of any road in the land, cut in two by Depression. It took in $731,000,000 in 1929, dropped to $380,000,000 in 1934, recovered to $400,000,000 in 1935. Yet deficits have still to appear. In 1932. dismal rail-road year, it made $13,500,000. By 1935 its profit had been stepped up to $23,800,000- third best among U. S. carriers...
...only needed one further accolade--a Boston ban. We can only hope that some reburb, whose authorities do not regard intellectual freedom as a curse, will receive the step-child graciously, as it deserves. Meanwhile Boston can find its pleasure elsewhere, in flourishing burlesque houses, in cheap movies, in dismal "dives...
...purpose of real education is destroyed if hampered by limitations and taboos. When the full discussion of any problem is prohibited, liberal education becomes a dismal mockery...
...Little Minook" mine, gathered in $15,000 a day for a great many days, was a crony of Tex Rickard, Rex Beach, Jack London and "Klondike Kate" Rockwell, poured his money in a yellow river across the gambling tables. Broke, hoping for another big strike, he succumbed in a dismal flophouse last week to acute indigestion...