Word: dismaler
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...Christmas recess this year is to include one week and four days of class-time; twelve days in all. This is about the usual length. One is just beginning to fill one's soul with plum pudding and Father Noel when it is time to return to the dismal white wastes broken only by the peak of Memorial Hall. After the briefest snatch of relief, festivities are suddenly exchanged for facts, conviviality for colloquy. And because the recess is so short, the Yuletide days of a Harvard man are the acme of strenuous relaxation and busy indolence. The student comes...
...those dismal howls which the greatest of British bankers from time to time permit themselves went up after coffee, cognac and black cigars at London's Mansion House last week from fox-bearded Montagu Collett Norman, Governor of the Bank of England. "Look east or west, or wherever one will, and we see gold escaping from Europe across the Atlantic," gloomed the Governor. "How far we are from those settled conditions under which alone we can work...
...Connecticut law against caging eagles, announced that Uncle Sam had been illegally imprisoned all these years. "The best thing and the most humane thing to do with it," wrote the New London Day's columnist, "is to chloroform it as quickly as possible and remove the dismal and unsightly cage from the park...
...before another is cried aloud in the market place. Today, therefore, he resorts to that old escape--one frowned upon by maladjusted psychologists--to barken to those gentle soul who "tell tales of little meaning, though the words are strong." As the world is thrusting itself forward to a dismal future the Vagabond is thrusting himself back upon an epic past. He will listen to Professor Rollins discuss the early epics in Server 11 at 10 this morning...
...DeSilva believes that the dismal U. S. toll of injury, death and property loss exacted by automobile accidents (TIME, Aug. 12) is largely due to the fact that entirely too many drivers take their driving for granted, fail to assess and try to improve their skill as they would if they were fishermen or golfers or chess players. He scoffs at the typical test for an operator's license, in which a bored policeman rides slowly around the block with the candidate, who meets no emergency and performs nothing more difficult than turning around in a dead-end street...