Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bradford are looked upon today as boring chroniclers of a forgotten age, the enthusiastic reader can readily find much of worth and even enjoyment in these old pages. True, in this early stage of American Literature there is more than enough of the much feared religious tract or dismal "ideas on the mind," but these may be reconciled by an hour with Franklin and the Gout or Trumbull and his "Tory Squire...
...strike day was dismal and rainy, but Englewood High School, in which the word had gone around the day before, was quickly followed by Crane High School, where 2,000 responded to posted placards; by Calumet, which disgorged nearly all of its 5,000 students; by Forestville, where teachers slyly took part by reporting "sick"; by others which brought the total of strikers near 50,000, teachers estimated, most of them in South Side high schools...
...innings with 356. In Australia's second innings, Stanley McCabe made himself look foolish by ducking the pitches of England's bowler, Harold Larwood, instead of trying to defend his wicket. Australia was set down for 175 runs. In a light rain next morning, a dismal little gallery of 1,000 watched England run up 157 for four wickets, then clinch the series and the Ashes when Paynter, batting with Ames, slogged out a boundary hit that ended the test, 519 to 515, with six wickets to spare...
...seldom stoop to cinema, to witness Cavalcade, his episodic pageant of empire not yet legitimately staged in the U, S. Further down the street the shadow of Claudette Colbert was to be seen fluttering across a screen version (Tonight is Ours) of one of Playwright Coward's most dismal failures, The Queen Was in the Parlour. Wherever he went last year-with the possible exception of the Brazilian jungles-during an enviably carefree junket, he could hear tunes he had written for Bittersweet, and the more recent Words & Music simpering from phonographs and radios. With his own two hands...
Rare is the dog-owner who has not seen one of his animals grow dull, lose appetite, begin to cough, vomit, twitch, discharge from nose and eyes, or show some other of distemper's dismal symptoms. He has watched despairingly, knowing his dog would probably die or be permanently marked by this worst danger to dogs. Until three years ago, distemper seemed an inevitable part of almost every dog's life. Uncertain of its cause, veterinarians were helpless to cure or prevent...