Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first attempt to heal the Great Schism had been a dismal failure. But with the rank & file on both sides thoroughly fed up with what is essentially a struggle between ambitious leaders for personal power, it was by no means certain that this attempt would be the last...
...Carnegie Hall concerts. They managed to keep time with each other, played as well as some orchestras do under some conductors. But the electric fusion of tone that would have been brought forth by a Toscanini, a Stokowski or a Furtwangler was completely lacking. Financially the venture was a dismal flop...
...remarkable that a professional football team, in one season, should have generated such a super-college spirit in its town, but the Redskins are a remarkable team. From 1932 through 1936 the champion Washington Redskins were the dismal Boston Redskins. In that time they lost for their owner, Washington Laundryman George ("Long Live Linen") Marshall approximately $85,000. At the start of the 1937 football season, Owner Marshall, fed up with perpetual deficits in Boston, moved his franchise and his team to Washington where he could give it his personal attention. His only major change in personnel was the addition...
...pied piper of Hamelin was a dismal flop compared to the modern underworld radio show. One day four years ago several young matrons at the Women's Club in suburban Maplewood, N. J. fell to talking about this problem, a great worry to many a U. S. mother who has observed the intense preoccupation of U. S. moppets with the cheap and sensational entertainment provided for them by films, newspaper strips and particularly the radio. Said brown-haired, brown-eyed Mrs. Dorothy L. McFadden, mother of James & Jean and wife of James L. McFadden, export consultant and amateur sketcher...
With an eye to variety, Director Edward H. Griffith slipped in several enlivening touches of his own. The best: Low-brow Erwin, rolling dice on his program during the performance of Martha, finds neighbors on both sides of him eager to play, turns up snake eyes to complete his dismal evening...