Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Gresham Machen, born 52 years ago in Baltimore, was not another Bryan but he was a peppery, name-calling fighter. Dr. Machen caused the late Dr. Henry Van Dyke to relinquish his pew in Princeton's First Presbyterian Church because, said he, Dr. Machen preached "a dismal, bilious travesty of the Gospel...
...from Ash tabula Harbor, Ohio. In his childhood Burchfield found nothing so fascinating as tumble-down houses, freight trains, railroad tracks. Today most up-to-date museums have Burchfields.. Not so spectacular a draughtsman as Benton, Burchfield manages to invest his paintings with a calm if somewhat dismal dignity and an exceptionally acute feeling for light and space. He lives in an eight-room frame house outside Buffalo, N. Y. with his wife and five children, amuses himself by tending his garden and building frames for his pictures...
...telling--the story of a lonely woman whose only child was dead at birth. Drawing on his own experience in the Cumberland Mountains, Agee makes a living thing of the feel of the earth, the surge of life awakening in the spring, the warm, rich rain, and the dismal despair of the hopeless winter...
...Miss $15-a-week dictation sponge engulfing a hectic ham-on-rye; sunshine on the glories of Park Avenue; the same sunshine on the littered, crowded alloys of Mike Gold's 606 playground (the East Side); Fifth Avenue jammed with taxis, limousines and fur-clad ladies with good dogs; dismal parks replete with dejected souls, magnificent churches disgorging uplifted souls; bustling symbolic Wall Street, beggars, radicals, bankers, gangsters; longshoremen--a consolidated mass of humanity, steel and stone. The book is arranged on the thin theme of a 24 hour period and attempts to follow representative types through their daily trials...
...spring of 1930 a blond, square-shouldered young man sat in his Model-T Ford and looked at Scranton, Pa. He saw great black pyramids of coal, busy, puffing locomotives, dismal rows of workers' houses. From Scranton he turned south to Bethlehem where there were steel mills and more locomotives...