Word: woeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Academy of Design, where he went for two-and-a-half years when young, purely to stall off a career, Artist Steig got all his fun playing football in the back yard. The dead hand of the academy certainly guided none of his carving. Longest job was the woeful Guitarist-two weeks; shortest was the Sequinned Lady-two days. School Girl is a bit African around the eyes, but Man at a Gathering is straight Steig. In general he wanted to make figures that would not "seem out of place in the cabbage fumes of apartment houses." Last week...
Most comforting of all to stockholders who had been reading the woeful financial pages lately, was the news that both NBC and CBS had a larger advertising revenue in March than either of them had ever had in one month before. NBC figures: $3,800,000; CBS: $3,000,000. Radio advertising is mostly contracted for in 13-week lumps, which protects the networks from any really precipitous fall in earnings. But not even the most melancholy stockholder, considering what has happened to advertising in most newspapers and magazines in the last six months, could refrain from concluding that...
...Charm of La Boheme (Intergloria Film) sets characters very like Puccini's Mimi and Rodolfo on a tragic course in a modern cinema plot, contrives to fit the woeful wind-up into La Boheme's familiar last act. With vigorous operatic Tenor Jan Kiepura and his cinema-songstress wife, Marta Eggerth, singing the opera's chief arias, the music charms, the film's scheme proves a workable one for bringing grand opera to the screen...
...James G. Elaine, Joseph Cannon, Champ Clark and Nicholas Longworth have used their authority so effectively as to give the job a lively tradition of being second in importance only to the Presidency itself. Since the departure to the Senate of John Nance Garner the speakership has suffered a woeful decline in prestige. Old Henry T. Rainey and gangling Joe Byrns, Speaker Bankhead's predecessors under the New Deal, were not men to make the job what it had been theretofore-that of a boss, for whom the House Majority Leader functioned as a sort of floor operative. Furthermore...
...newshawks Chef Charpentier told a woeful story. Two years ago agents...