Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teeth fixed, the bill would come to $3,860,000,000 ($47.19 a head). Such was the estimate which Dr. Raymond M. Walls, chairman of the American Dental Association's economics committee, presented to the dentists' annual convention in Houston last week. Other dismal figures on U.S. teeth...
...with a small-town girl--Miss Dunne--who decides to have her fling in the big city. On the way there, she falls for a smooth slicker, played by Preston Foster, who promptly proceeds to forget her. From there on, the picture manages to give a dismal view of what "life in the penthouses" can sink to. Everyone hates everyone else; no one, except the everpresent proletarian butler, ever says anything pleasant to anyone else; and more highballs are downed per foot of film than in any movie turned out since Schenley's stopped producing propaganda flickers. Miss Dunne...
Perhaps the only city in the world without large slum districts, Stockholm was fortunate enough to escape much of the dismal blight characteristic of industrial zones like Pittsburgh and Chicago during the depression...
Vichy's rifts-or lack of them-were as uncertain last week as Vichy's African intentions. And Vichy's attempts to find diplomatic phrases that would satisfy both the London-Washington Axis and Berlin seemed pretty dismal. On the one hand, Washington was assured that Vichy would defend the French Empire "alone, wherever possible." On the other hand, Vichy announced that Germany might get "port facilities and transport privileges" within the scope of the collaboration promised the Nazis at Montoire-sur-le-Loir last year (and never publicly defined). Vichy also allowed its envoy to Paris...
...still possible to hope, in spite of all, that the U.S. would not have to get in a shooting war. The President was still hopeful; his exuberant optimism had not yet let him down. Some said that was one reason for the dismal state of confusion in Washington; that in spite of the grimming facts of life, 1941, he would not face the facts of the defense program delay. Well, he did not like to hurt any of his aides' feelings, or dislocate any citizen's business. As one aide put it: "He wants to kiss...