Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walsh Girls has been more highly praised than almost any first novel since Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel and Tess Slesinger's The Unpossessed. It deserves most of the good words given it. It suffers from the same bleak self-minimization that wounds the characters in the story and the town they live in, and the country of which it is part. Just as Lydia seems doomed to regard her life as dreary even when plainly it is not, so Author Janeway ruthlessly stamps out excitement and unexpected humor, like Miss Lydia keeping order in her classroom...
Around such treasures in a fusty, bleak office in Manhattan's drafty, labyrinthine Madison Square Garden, Nat Fleischer has built his boxing museum (which he values at $350,000) and his reputation as boxing's No. 1 expert. This week the collection gets a new item: Terrible Terry, the Brooklyn Terror (Ring Book Shop; $1). The author: Nathaniel Stanley Fleischer...
...first day the Nazis tortured Communist Peter Slavek they began by spitting in his face. In a bleak, spacious basement room, where the dim light oozed through frosted glass windows and the bored torturers whiled away their leisure hours playing cards and reading newspapers, they next broke his nose, split his lips and knocked out two teeth...
...Government House Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was taking the oath as President of the Republic of China. The people surged through the mud and drizzle to stare at the ban ners, the red posters, the lanterns, the brightly colored electric lights. In the gorge below the bleak, steeply terraced city, a gunboat barked 21 times...
...King's Highway; Christina Rossetti's somber In the Bleak Mid-Winter; a Negro spiritual, Were You There When They Crucified My Lord...