Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty British and 20 French insurance companies piled their experts on firebugs into airplanes, sent them roaring down to Nice last week to view two acres of dismal smouldering smudge, stabbed by bits of cracked marble walls...
...battle-cry. At first Savonarola had little success among the Dominicans, a preaching order, for he was as forceless a speaker as the tyro Demosthenes. But one day amidst a crowd of blasphemous soldiers he lost his temper and found his tongue. Called to preach at Florence (after one dismal failure there) he startled a goggling congregation into enthusiasm, soon became the city's foremost preacher. The mighty Lorenzo de' Medici tried to domesticate him, but Savonarola had more spiritual fish to fry. He began to cast in the troubled waters of politics. When the French invasion came...
...dizziness, fainting spells, and insomnia is certainly no cause for wonder. Nor will Pepso, Postum, or Sanka afford them any relief, for down in Washington the realistically-minded Mr. Pecora continues to dissect, with gusto, their jowly leaders, and after every such operation their brains are freighted with dismal adumbrations...
...attempt to become naturalized, and has always boasted of himself as "one of the original Nazis." With the accession of Chancellor Hitler, Heinz Spanknoebel was appointed head of the U. S. Nazis by Dr. Ley of the Nazi Foreign Propaganda Bureau in Hamburg. Mounting foreign protests, and the dismal failure of Nazi propaganda in foreign countries caused the Propaganda Bureau's official dissolution last July. Heinz Spanknoebel became leader of a milder organization of U. S. Teutons known as the "Friends of New Germany...
...Silver Cord-overemphasis. As though he feared that his audiences would miss the point, Director Edward H. Griffith made all the minor Hallams monsters instead of people. At the two Hallam parties-in which most of the action of the play goes forward-the guests behave with such dismal lack of manners that it is hard to believe that anyone clever enough to marry Stella could fail to share her dismay. With this flaw, Another Language remains a sharp, dreadful and amusing picture of middle-class domesticity especially notable for a brilliant performance by Louise Closser Hale, who died last...