Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Howard might do, continue to like their blatant, cocksure Post is evidenced by the fact that that sheet with its red headlines and its frank sensationalism has more than four times the weekday circulation of the News, nearly seven times its Sunday circulation. Scripps-Howard editors came & went with dismal regularity on the News without materially changing this situation. Last year it was Charles B. McCabe. Last month, it was Charles E. Lounsbury, a Denverite, who was given an indefinite leave of absence. Last week it was Forrest Davis, crack Scripps-Howard reporter, who found himself behind the editor...
...heavy thinking on the subject, while in the meantime not a single organizer was sent into the steel industry." If Leader Lewis had chosen to round out his indictment of the Federation leadership's failure to organize U. S. steel workers, he could have harked back across the dismal years since Steelmaster Henry Clay Frick bloodily crushed the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers at Homestead, Pa. in 1892. Not until 1919 did A. F. of L. recover courage to attempt a campaign in the nation's No. 1 basic industry. Its program was to split Steel...
Nevertheless the Federal Crop Reporting Board, giving its July 1 estimates of agricultural production last week, concluded that conditions, bad as they were, were so far not so dismal...
Grey beards today still remember "Little Egypt" (Frieda Mahzar) and her hootchy-kootchy dance when they have forgotten everything about the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. Philadelphia's Sesquicentennial in 1926 was a dismal failure largely be cause it put patriotism ahead of peep shows...
...rolling beauty of the King's course at Gleneagles was a dismal sight the day of the matches. Haar," an especially bad Scottish mist, swept over all 18 holes, limited clear vision to 100 yd. Because a postponement was not considered sporting, the golfers trudged wearily around, got soaking wet, wore fur mittens between shots. Caddies stood ahead as human signposts to mark the direction of the greens. To make matters worse, hungry birds had dislodged old divots in their search for grub, left a mass of cupped lies...