Word: bleaknesses
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...Wormwood Scrubs Prison, a soot-blackened pile in western London over-looking railway yards and a bleak, 200-acre common, Baron Kylsant and Sir John Simon pondered their next move. A final appeal was possible to Lord Kylsant's peers, the House of Lords, highest British court. On the other hand, by accepting his sentence of one year in jail and serving it meritoriously, Lord Kylsant could win a reduction of two months for "good behavior," might be a free man again as early as next September...
...decrease in the enrollment of the principal New England colleges. At Harvard, men have come as before, and they have come prepared to spend as before. There has been only a minor decrease in the average standard of living. The storekeepers of Harvard Square are not facing the bleak winter of their colleagues in Boston. For example, one of the music stores reports that its sales of expensive phonograph records is nearly as great as ever, the radio notwithstanding. Men may buy more circumspectly, but still they...
With this bleak world before them Wordsworth and Coleridge began the Lyrical Ballads. To case the bitterness in their hearts one wrote about romantic things in a wordly way, and the other wrote upon wordly things in a romantic way. The Romantic movement gave birth to famous men, great verse, a few ideas. It has become now, not a literary study, but a psychological corpse, an era whose only refuge was a "romantic escape...
Today, at two o'clock in Sever 11, the Vagabond will go to hear Hugh Miller talk about Bleak House with dramatic interpretations as embellishments. The book itself is one of the lesser known works of the author, but it has all the style, all the fine drama, all the able characteristics of his more well known works. As for Hugh Miller he has played with Sir Herbert Tree and all the satellites in the English heaven. A short while ago the Vagabond saw him as Jingle in Pickwick and he will personally guarantee any Dicken's performance Mr. Miller...
Hundreds of U. S. painters strove for the 30 open places. For days the U. S. committee of selection-Artists Randall Davey, Jonas Lie, Eugene Speicher. Ernest Blumenschein, Charles Rosen-sat in a bleak gallery while porters propped up more than 1,000 paintings before them. The 30 that were chosen took their places among the 466 that were invited to be judged by an international committee...