Word: dolefullness
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Almost any afternoon in that rainy fall of 1771 you might have seen Oliver Goldsmith wandering out along the lanes of Hendon and Edgeware. From his aimless gait and the doleful expression on his face you would scarcely have guessed that he was busy concocting a new farce-comedy. But...
Calling him "a smart promoter'' and letting it go at that does scant justice to the pertinacious Kentuckian, Euclid M. Covington, who got the idea for This Week some four or five years ago and stuck with it despite discouragement, depression, and doleful predictions of the doubting Thomases...
Last week an anonymous Army officer who signed himself "A Tory" brought dry grins to the doleful face of the G. 0. P. with a 50? pamphlet titled Frankie in Wonderland. Sample paraphrase:
Enlivened by many moments of charm and genuine humor this commonplace story is saved from being wholly doleful or depressing. Miss Sullavan is aided considerably by a distinguished group of players in accomplishing this. Mr. Borgage has created a thoroughly German atmosphere in attractive settings and has made the events...
Sung with doleful nonchalance by its author, James Shelton, this Gutter Song is one of the pleasant moments in New Faces. So is a parody of grim Tobacco Road in which Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs impersonate Erskine CaldwelFs hungry gluttons. Squeaks the largest pig: "I ain'...