Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prospects to moviedom. It carries the technique of suspense beyond the stage of "Foreign Correspondent." Hitchcock's suspense is inherently melodramatic, whereas John Ford's is self-contained atmosphere, bovering over a plot of merely secondary importance. The subject of "The Long Voyage Home" is mainly an impression, a dismal portrait of futility...
Peasants in the fields glared back at the chateau last week, for they knew that scattered about in its dismal rooms was a varied assortment of once eminent French leaders. They might be scapegoats, they might face dishonor they did not warrant, but to the little people of France it looked at last as if someone was going to catch hell for the social, political and military debacle that culminated in what was grandiosely called the Battle of France...
With such pictures of the countryside Critic Brooks heightens the dismal drama of New England's slow decline to which the book always returns. Bit by bit the great tradition ran down like the clocks that "had gone dead in many hamlets that had hummed with life." In the '80s "society had lost its vital interests. . . . In the absence of motives its mind was becalmed." The 'gos were "a day of little faith, the day of the epigoni, the successors, in whom the nineteenth century went to seed." Soon it was time for Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson...
Black rainy clouds hung low over Philadelphia; Sunday afternoon was one long twilight that deepened steadily into gloomy night. In the gathering dusk, over the city's brick-paved streets jounced cabs from the three-day-old airport, from the dismal cavern of old Broad Street Station. Packed in the cabs were thousands of men whose minds were as wind-tossed and gloomy as the night...
Last fortnight, in the American Journal of Public Health, Drs. Charles Milton Carpenter and Robert Sturgeon Westphal, bacteriologists of the University of Rochester, shocked the medical world with some dismal after-facts on sulfanilamide and gonorrhea. It is true, said they, that the drug removes the symptoms of gonorrhea. But patients often harbor the germs long after they are pronounced cured, thus becoming "gonorrhea carriers," able to infect other people, though apparently hale themselves...