Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Signing the Investment Company Act and Investment Advisers Act which will put investment trusts and counselors under SEC supervision, Candidate Roosevelt called the bill to witness "this Administration's vigorous program . . . to protect the investor." Sure that "we have come a long way from the bleak days of 1929." the President voiced a pious hope: "It is a source of satisfaction that businessmen have at last come to recognize that it is this Administration's purpose to aid the honest businessman...
...Dining Car. In this same car, in this same spot, in the bleak November dawn of another Friday 22 years ago tough old Marshal Foch received the German delegation with these words: "Qu'est-ce que vous désirez, messieurs?" ("What do you want, gentlemen?") Said the chief of the German Delegation, Mathias Erzberger:* "We have come to receive the proposal of the Allied Powers for an armistice." Foch (sharply): "I have no proposal whatsoever to make." Count Alfred von Oberndorff: "Tell us, Herr Feldmarschall, how you wish us to express ourselves. Our delegation is prepared...
Down to Union Station to meet her went 6,000 bearded men and gingham-gowned women. Braving the bleak, rain-speckled wind was roly-poly Mayor Dan B. Butler, who asked giddy Gracie to call him "Dan." Said she: "You can't say Dan over the radio...
...weedy, bedraggled cowhands, tintypical Americans of a generation ago. Some of them (the shambling, baggy Negro Big Ick, the fiddle-case-footed shop foreman "Bull of the Woods," the blowzy, ingeniously self-thwarting moppet "Worry Wart") are as real to newspaper readers as their own cousins. Its homely humanity, bleak realism, and salty, Mark Twainish humor have attracted the attention of Americana-collecting highbrows, have earned for its author the title "Will Rogers of the Comic Strip...
...bleak Manchester, N. H., and in muddy Fall River, Mass., he talked to men on park benches, men in committee offices about the death of New England's great mills, the difficult struggle to get small industries into the empty buildings. Against the small Jewish manufacturers, whom he guessed to be more like the Yankees of old than the Yankee descendants are, he saw race prejudice growing among the misled unemployed poor. "The poor who hate seem to me as sad as the pitiful who are hated. It is the seashore and schoolhouse anti-Semites who make me sick...