Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days ago I attended the Harvard-Princeton baseball game, and once more I was impressed by the dismal ineffectiveness of the three "Princetons!" at the end of the locomotive cheer it sounded like a triple iteration of: "We're Stung!" Indeed there is another, and still more unfavorable connotation, but since the latter is totally unfitted for ears polite I am unable to be more explicit...
...heavy gale accompanied April to Manhattan. Wall Street ran with water. Offices were lighted all day. It was dismal, not exciting, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Most traders kept an eye on Post 2, where United States Steel is traded in. Shortly after noon Steel sold at $138, one-eighth above its previous 1931 low. It was evident that what had a few weeks before seemed a runaway Spring market had petered...
...atmosphere breathed its spell upon him. This would never do! Death and the graveyard spun their eery way through the network of his brain. An owl screeched in the German Museum. His mind played pranks and he looked down the dismal stretches to the rain-swept pavement below. Suicide...
...white and glistening and untouched it is. Imagine the trodden, trampled, often miry footpaths, (no, thought-paths) of a long-used mind, pitted with grievances, scarred with ugliness, cumbered with useless lumber, strewn with outworn hopes, clouded with disappointments and with sorrows, rusty with neglected opportunities, creaking with dismal hopeless habits. And then imagine the little lustrous honeycomb of cells of pearly pearly white that my son Simon...
...whole lot. Those who are fans of this star now will not be disappointed. Her supporting cast excells her in singing, and dancing but never in ability as an actress or personality. There are several talented minor characters who supply tricky dances which add immeasurably to the evening, otherwise dismal...