Word: dismaler
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...liner St. Louis left Hamburg one Sunday last month. Out into the grey waste of the Atlantic it carried its dismal cargo: 937 German-Jewish refugees bound for Cuba. The ten-year-old, oil-burning, 16,732-ton ship was scheduled to discharge its miserable company at Havana, proceed to New York to pick up passengers for a gay June cruise to the West Indies. The refugees were to remain in Cuba until they could enter the U. S. They were a typical group of the world's newest homeless wanderers: men in sports clothes who had paid...
Winners of the verdict were four purchasers of stock of Austin Silver Mining Co., of which Socialite Sabin was once president. They bought 6,000 shares of Austin Silver in March 1937. It was between $2.50 and $3. By the end of the year it had dropped to a dismal 871/2?. But while the price went downhill, the four had no intention of going on a sleigh ride with it. They brought suit for the difference between the purchase price and the price on the day they filed the petition. They contended that Section 11 had been violated because...
Perfect housekeeper, cheerful companion, admiring reader, pretty Jane Carlyle tenderly nursed her husband's rockbound dyspepsia with tasty food, his dyspeptic humors with tasty compliments, sparkled wittily for his friends, never complained of poverty or the isolation of dismal winters on the godforsaken farm at Craigenputtock, kept her mouth shut when he was talking, swallowed her humiliation when he spent his evenings with Lady Ashburton, took a back seat for 40 years, and in the end convinced Victorian contemporaries that the Carlyle marriage was a gruff idyl. Her reward was the affectionate petname "Goody," the company of famous...
...shift for himself. The Japanese distinctly did not want him around, Commodore Perry notwithstanding. They asked him to go home on the ship he came on. When he refused, they set a cheeky guard around his miserable house, prohibited his traveling more than seven miles from the dismal fishing village of Shimoda, gave him diseased chickens to eat, picked on his Chinese servants while refusing to let Japanese work for him, evaded, stalled, levied a staggering rate of exchange. Their diplomatic technique was to say yes and do nothing. Harris' technique was stubbornness, honesty, hospitality. It was four years...
Says one of the old books:* "The music of a well-ordered reign is peaceable and conducive to happiness; such a government is harmonious. The music of a reign of disorder is spiteful and conducive to anger; such a government is seditious. The music of a ruined kingdom is dismal and brings care; such a nation is mournful...