Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked to the $50,000 Stanhope held in their home so it will intimate touch. Crowds fill the streets, door-checkers and bouncers abound for the purpose of keeping it exclusive; orchids and orchestras line the balcony; and the debutante and her parents, arrayed by Mr. Patou, greet some dismal but socially presentable friends. Beneath all this gay exterior a tragedy is taking place. The young musician, not realizing what he has done to the debutante, leaves her to marry the socialite, Jimmy Weaver, the third. Quite a noble conception...
Instituting a new system this year, seats may be reserved in advance. These seats will be held until 3.55 o'clock and this innovation is expected to lessen the necessity of standing three hours or more in dismal company outside the New Lecture Hall. The tickets may be obtained from the University Information Office, Room A, University Hall...
...full two weeks by announcing in his radio period and tabloid column that the 1933-34 prizewinner was Men in White by Sidney Kingsley. This was startling and unpleasant news to the play jury composed of Clayton Hamilton, oldtime drama-critic, Author Walter Prichard Eaton (Boy Scouts in the Dismal Swamp}, and Play wright Austin Strong (Seventh Heaven}. Incensed not at Gossip Winchell's premature revelation but at the Columbia School of Journalism's general prize committee for scuttling the play jury's unanimous choice, Professor Hamilton hotly declared: "I think it's outrageous...
...twelfth day the skinny white mongrel rolled over, struggled to its front feet, barked a dismal bark. In a moment it crumpled up, but young Dr. Robert E. Cornish was delighted. Two other stray terriers which he had killed and revived in his University of California laboratory had died again for good and all within a few hours (TIME, March 26). But after being quite dead-heart stopped, breath stopped, eyes glazed-for four minutes on Friday, April 13, Dog No. 3 had been brought back to live day after day. This apparent miracle had been worked by means...
...volume is incoherent, over-expanded, the pictures of contemporary life are a dismal failure and after having finished the book the reader is of the opinion that Mr. Wilson had a great fund of information about an interesting subject but that it has been unfortunately presented in a manner that makes the volume valuable only through a few isolated passages...