Word: dismaler
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...been brought to being for the first time in the U. S. by the Provincetown Playhouse. As indicated by the title the action follows the wild imaginings of one whose mind is unlocked in sleep. Wealth and pleasure, disease and religion are all surveyed in a swift succession of dismal pictures ending in something like death. Christ walking upon the waters is one of the incidents. Though not badly acted by Mary Fowler and Stanley Howlett, the production is pretty generally heavy going...
...contemplating the fact that, out of every 100 U. S. youngsters who start off in kindergarten, only four or five take high school diplomas; and the further fact that of these young hopefuls, theoretically a hand-picked lot, anywhere from 10 to 25 in 100 make a dismal botch of their freshman year at college...
...only has the press been inundated with correspondence, but the religious weeklies are battling royally. As C. F. G. Masterman describes these debates, they have been wages, "It must be confessed, with a ferocity and bitterness which offers a dismal contrast to the testimony of these amiable and eminent men, not credible to Christian apologists...
...With dismal groans and yells we'll drown Your mournful burial rite...
...into night is just turning, With a solemn dirge, by the dismal light...