Word: dreariest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stocks on the Big Board, Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. has been the dullest and dreariest. Back in 1919, it cost $2.85 a share; in 1923, one could buy it for 25?. But for the most part, it hovered around $1. And there, for a jest, three potent stockmarketeers bought it in large blocks as the wittiest of all possible Christmas gifts to their wives...
...exuberance and enthusiasm. It is this quality above all, we thinly which has made the author so suddenly and deservedly famous. He is always such a delightful companion, so alive, so eager and able to enjoy life, that he could delight us as much if he wrote of the dreariest main Street...