Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franco and his generals owed their dismal success very largely to Germany and Italy. Their political philosophies and totalitarian methods coincided. But last week Axis sentiment was being subordinated to tough expediency. Internally, Spain was a caldron. Thousands were starving. Eighty food products were strictly rationed, including, nearly all staples. Railroads and roads were in bad repair. The country needed oil, grain, machinery, rolling stock-obtainable from...
...theater front, Mayor LaGuardia's police hauled off to court, on indecency charges, the management of a dismal burlesque-revue called Wine, Women & Song. Said the Mayor: "The title is very misleading. The public thought it was Viennese music." The public, its misapprehensions cleared up, promptly took a new interest in Wine, Women & Song. The managers,who had expected to fold in a week for lack of customers, gleefully hauled down the closing notice. If the court case dragged on long enough, the show might...
...place is dank, dismal, depressing. Stacks of grey, fungus-covered piling loom like ghostly sentries, a huge, muddy filled-in ditch resembles the caved-in moat of a deserted castle. A few workmen slowly dismantle a partly built railroad; now & then a grey-clad Louisiana State patrolman plods his lonely beat...
...lead the victorious march into Alexandria. On the way. R.A.F. pilots knocked down a convoying plane, killing his personal chef and personal barber. Loss of the barber was not so bad, since II Duce is as bald as a monkey's bottom, but loss of the cook was dismal. Then Rommel was stopped, and there could be no triumphal procession...
...little Rosar-Catcher Rosar found that a potential policeman's lot was not a happy one. Manager McCarthy had not only fined him $250 for jumping the club but had hired rollicking Rollie Hemsley to take his place. Hemsley, recently cast off by the Cincinnati Reds for his dismal record of 13 hits in 115 times at bat this season, seemed an unlikely squat-in for Bill Dickey. But on his first day with the Yankees, catching all innings of a doubleheader on the hottest day of the year, Hemsley got five hits in eight times...