Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall tree toppled by New Deal axmen in 1932 was lugubrious, bony, prophetic Reed Smoot, Utah Senator since 1903. Except for an occasional cussing-out as author of the Smoot-Hawley tariff, Latter-Day-Saint Apostle Smoot was promptly forgotten by a busy U. S., and his dismal prophecies with him. Last week thoughtful newsmen realized that at least two of gloomy Oldster Smoot's melancholy forecasts were being realized...
Last week the law's majesty cracked down-not on Rat Alley, but on the Post-Dispatch. Sharp, cantankerous Circuit Attorney Franklin Miller (whose prosecution of the case against Putty Nose was called by the Post-Dispatch "one more in his 11-year record of dismal flops") filed an information for contempt of court against the Post-Dispatch, its Editors Reese and Coghlan. its Cartoonist Fitzpatrick. Judge Rowe decided there was cause for action, ordered all three to appear in court this week...
...same old story of tossing aside the record books and concentrating on the effect of traditional rivalry, when the Yale and Harvard sextets meet tonight in Cambridge. For though Yale at present heads the Quad League along with Princeton while Harvard is a dismal fourth, the Blue is not taking this series for granted...
...perpetual night, without thinking that in our own day a new, haunted, legend-breeding region is being created-something that for our own time is the Dreadful Forest, as the Black Forest was a region of terror in the middle ages, or as the Swamp of the Great Dismal was in the days of the runaway slaves. This war of people freezing as they fall, of petrified corpses, of armies falling into lakes, of feeble sunlight touching the warriors for a few moments a day, is something for which neither the historians nor the poets have prepared us. The only...
Almost everybody was seasick. Their moans of misery made a fitting background to the scene. Some of us sang. Speed Bonny Boat and Loch Lomond were inevitable if inappropriate choices, and they must have sounded dismal, but they warmed...