Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greek peninsula. For the rest of the 19th Century the Greeks acquired a shameful record of defeat in battle. They acquired more territory only through the benevolence of the Great Powers, chiefly Britain. Then green currants from the Ionian Islands were the main economic support of the dismal little nation...
...bending into it, move with the slowness of despair. Hear them talk as they labour through the darkness with the, subtle echo of madness in their voices, the younger one babbling pointlessly and the old one muttering courses to himself. He curses his daughter and his dismal fate, his weak age and his cracking brains and the fool beside him. Lightening picks pot their faces at odd intervals. Rain glisters the brightly vacuous expression of the younger man. It sprays the old man, gray with pain and hopelessness, and blinds his eyes that are so dark with trouble, smoldering with...
Radcliffe legs dangling over the edge of the Harvard pool and graceful female forms catapulted from the diving boards yesterday morning as the Indoor Athletic Building took an a pseudo-summer resort atmosphere while flurries of snow were the dominant features of a dismal mid-winter scene without...
...year-old daughter as blonde as herself. Pretty Helen Jepson is an expert fisherwoman and her radio contracts have already made her rich. But pretty Helen Jepson had little opportunity to prove herself more than a light, agreeable singer last week in the Metropolitan's latest and most dismal venture into the realm of native opera...
...Betrayed carries the story of Vridar Hunter one more plodding step toward maturity. A poor Idaho farm boy, cursed with sensitivity and ambition, he has weathered a dismal childhood, a hellish adolescence, has married, halfway through his hard-won college career,a pretty slattern. Though he fiercely intends the marriage to be a success he knows the prospects are hopeless. We Are Betrayed is the story of its tragic failure...