Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond is not interested in psychology, it is a dismal subject at best. So it is with great pleasure that he goes today at 12 to Emerson D to hear Professor Lowes talk on Wordsworth, the precursor of the Romanticists. Wordsworth himself, the Vagabond firmly believes, only wrote five poems that can be read without the aid of a bromo-seltzer, but he was the primary influence in one of the greatest literary periods the modern world has ever known...
...therefore, resorted to an old dodge, one frowned upon by psychologists and sociologists. He has taken unto himself comfort and refuge in romantic escape. He has harkened to the men who tell "tales of little meaning, though the words are strong." As the world is rushing headlong into the dismal future, he is thrusting himself backwards upon a Victorian past. Today at 12 he will journey to the Big Fogg Lecture Room, there to hear Professor Lowes upon the 19th Century poets. For a brief hour life will float gracefully along nodding to the gods upon Olympus and sweeping...
With their case on trial before the Interstate Commerce Commission, the railroads themselves were not unwilling to have things look as black as receivership. Fairman R. Dick, partner of Roosevelt & Son. secretary of a bondholders committee on the railroad emergency, added to the dismal tale last week when he testified before the Commission that: Railroads could no longer dispose of their bonds; their securities were no longer regarded as secondary reserve by the banks; only the bonds of three railroads in the country could be regarded as high grade (Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Union Pacific; Norfolk & Western...
...early summer rains had killed off the young grouse on the Scotch, English and Welsh moors. Then there were reports that the grouse had survived the wet, were as plentiful as usual. As The Twelfth, the historic August opening of Britain's grouse season approached, the reports turned dismal again. ''Grouse disease" had thinned out the coveys. Day before The Twelfth the moors were reported soggy, dank. Consequently Scotsmen anxiously assembled at the Edinburgh and Glasgow railroad stations to note how many rich Englishmen and Americans were coming up from London for that most decorous of outdoor...
...since the War, expenditures had, as everyone well knew they would, exceeded receipts, thereby producing a thumping big deficit. Perhaps it was just as well that Secretary Mellon, who had piled up ten annual surpluses in a row, .was away in Paris when the Treasury had to make its dismal accounting to the country. A depression far beyond his darkest estimates had hit the Government's pocketbook and now to his chief assistant fell the unpleasant task of making explanations...