Word: bleakness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Just as the station clock neared nine, Edward of Wales drew on capacious rubbers, donned a grey checked overcoat, struggled into a great black ulster with an astrakhan collar, clapped a bowler (derby) on his head, and was off by limousine to inspect in three days slightly over 100 bleak, grimy villages. Appropriately a driving snow swirled about the royal car and patriotic British correspondents wired to anxious London that H. R. H. was "pressing on," despite "his heavy cold" and "frequent coughing...
...bleak remorse in apple juice...
...bleak New England...
...years ago Russia sent three white men, three white women and 50 Eskimo families to bleak little Wrangel Island, disastrous site 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The people were called a colony and their planting on the island was a Soviet gesture of possession against the rival claims of the U. S. and Canada. In the 1820's the Russian Baron Wrangel heard of, but did not see, the island. In 1867, Captain Thomas Long, U. S. citizen, sailed around and named it. Just before the War, Captain Robert A. Bartlett, who recently announced his plans...
...Indiscreet Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, His Majesty's Home Secretary (TIME, Jan. 14). now vacationing on the French Riviera, said last week that he thought Their Majesties might soon remove from bleak London to sunny Menton, a few miles from Monte Carlo...