Word: diring
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...Dire and inexorable figures were released, last week, by Great Britain's aristocratic Minister of Labor, Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland, LL.D. Though it must have galled him to do so, Sir Arthur was obliged to announce that more Britons are now out of work than at any time since the catastrophic General Strike...
That Ferguson Family. Christmas week in the theatre is a time of plenty but not always one of jollity. While the holly wreaths hang high, the gloomiest producers, among them Gustav Blum, creep out with their dire presentations. Blum's latest bit of hardware was not so dull as festive critics found it, though not so good as its author, Howard Chenery, tried to make...
Close are the ties which bind Pennsy to United N. J. R. R. In 1871, Pennsy leased the lines for 999 years. It agreed to pay 10% on United N. J. R. R.'s $20,876,800 outstanding capital stock. And dire would be the confusion should Pennsy break this Methuselean lease. Passengers from Philadelphia would climb out at the N. Y.-N. J. state line at Trenton, pray for motor lorries to carry them to Jersey City, whence they might proceed through Pennsy tunnels to Manhattan...
...mere whimper, and concentrate on the delectable vision conjured up by their mother's words. At last their vigil is rewarded and the familiar step of their progenitor echoes through the open transom. But as the door swings open upon the expectant group, one glance suffices to convey the dire truth that the father's quest has been in vain. Abstract knowledge is the only sustenance he has to offer in the eyes of the brave mother...
Nobly borne upon a rumbling gun carriage came the coffin of Fayolle, he who succeeded Petain and held Verdun through the dire summer of 1917. Like most of the French Marshals, he was once a Professor at the Ecole de Guerre; and time has vindicated his numerous original doctrines de la concentration des feux et des moyens (theories of laying down a barrage...