Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judy Graves, the wistfully adolescent heroine of Junior Miss, was a smash in the New Yorker, on Broadway and in the movies, but radio audiences have always found her dull. Last week, after two dismal airflops, she was back for a third, determined try. And it looked as though the new Junior Miss (Sat. 11:30 a.m., E.S.T., CBS) might...
...Odds. He had also revised the odds on the whole Republican sweepstakes. MacArthur's poor showing let the air out of the MacArthur balloon with a sudden, dismal swoosh. Tom Dewey was worse off than if he had never shown up at all. Taftmen had something to crow about. Not only had Dewey's prestige been dented, but MacArthur strength, they hoped, would now flow their...
...nearly as possible to the pattern of that magazine . . . Of course if you're a genius, you won't have to worry about those rejection slips anyway." The managing editor of Good Housekeeping advises, "If you write for your own amusement, you can be as dismal as you choose, but the public continues to prefer entertainment to morbidity . . . I often feel that if I come across one more trauma or psycho-analyst's couch in a manuscript, I will become a manic-depressive and scream...
...hours for library haunting to gain a source book. The seven House libraries were originally designed to carry a stock of required books for most courses, and thus to eliminate long nocturnal walks to Widener, Boylston, and the Union. In this capacity the House libraries are actually a dismal failure...
...Ephmen, traditionally a scrappy outfit, have had a dismal season so far, winning but two contests out of nine starts. And these two victories were against bandbox colleges Hamilton, and U. of Mass. A 6 to 6 deadlock with New England ski leader Middlebury rounds out the credit side of the Williams hockey ledger...