Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world in its own coin, Mr. Stalin has constructed a subway system in his capital city, which, if the pictures are to be believed, is a cross between the Widener reading-room and the Radio City Music Hall. Although poor capitalistic New Yorkers and Bostonians ride to work in dismal, cement-crusted burrows, the sybaritic Muscovites will travel through indirect-lighted galleries, looking at artistic mosaics and marble-faced walls. If New Yorkers threatened last year to do their stock-trading in Newark because of unreasonable taxes, how much better right have they now to do their commuting in Moscow...
After noting the artistic bankruptcy of Flowers of the Forest, critics could only record that Playwright van Druten had spoken, but not very succinctly, in a worthy cause. His flashbacks to Wartime England seem singularly unexciting, while his contemporary scenes make peace appear as dismal as war. Spectators were most disappointed by the voice-from-beyond scene, a difficult illusion which failed to get across the footlights, through no fault of Miss Cornell and her excellent supporting cast. Though he played his part as the stricken oracle with ingratiating charm, Burgess Meredith could not help tripping over Mr. van Druten...
...waiting game, an attitude of tolerance in spite of the dismal outlook, is the best course of action for the disappointed Freshman to adopt. Many students now accepted for the Houses will not occupy their appointed places next fall. The significant group of "dropped" Freshmen; the large numbers who will not return for scholastic, financial, or personal reasons; the annual Sophomore exodus to the pseudo-swank of the now decrepit Gold Coast; all of these are good insurance that the bars will be raised to many before September arrives...
...crowd, which had made Lasky a 3-to-1 favorite, it soon became apparent that the injury had little significance. Steady, savage, relentless, boxing with the enthusiasm that characterized his style ten years ago, the skill he has acquired in the course of a long and dismal career, Braddock was fighting the bout of a lifetime. The judges' decision, awarded to him at the finish, meant that Braddock had overnight become the kingpin in the current heavyweight situation, may well be chosen to fight Champion Max Baer next summer...
...weight events, it has become traditional to bemoan the loss of Dean and Healey, but the outlook is not quite so dismal as it was before the Tri-Meet. Cahners' first place in the 35-pound weight throw against Dartmouth and Cornell give the weight men the first real encouragement they have had in many months. Millard in the shot-put is another prospective point-winner, and the versatile Emile Dubiel, who carried off points in his Freshman year at every event from broad jump to javelin-throw, can be counted on for a capable performance in the javelin-throw...