Word: bleakness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hakim Bakhtyar Rustomji Ratanji, a high-strung Mohammedan with a natural flair for obstetrics, won his brilliant academic way to Edinburgh in 1927 and in this dingy grey and bleak seat of Scottish learning seduced a waitress by the name of Isabella Van Hess. Student Ratanji was then using the name "Gabriel Hakin," but on marrying his waitress he proceeded to become legally "Buck Ruxton." Soon, as Dr. Ruxton, he became a popular and prosperous gynecologist who delivered hundreds of well-to-do Lancaster mothers and had last week a fine snug house in Dalton Square...
...whose capital is increasing $2,000 per day or thereabouts struck the merriest possible note in Scotland. Cheerfully the King, in sleek long coat and bowler, set out to repeat in Glasgow slums the sort of famed house-to-house tour he made as Edward of Wales through the bleak, starveling Welsh collieries and "Depressed Areas...
...bleak March day three years ago when Franklin Roosevelt stepped up and took the oath of office, he was a national hope. A month later he was a national hero. He had won the heart of a frightened nation by the height at which he held his head, the breadth to which his smile expanded, by self-confidence that seemed almost Olympian. Seldom since then had his self-confidence failed him. It enabled him to propose and get Congress to approve frank experiments. It gave him courage to ask Congress for sums of money that no other peacetime President...
...again to crowded Moscow from his bleak hut on the Donbas Steppe last week went famed Alexei Stakhanov (TIME, Dec. 16), the shrewd Soviet coal miner who devised a method ("Stakhanovism'') for speeding up the toil of Russian workers. A nationwide intensive labor speed-up for ten days had been decreed by Dictator Joseph Stalin, and at its climax amid great Moscow excitement Stakhanov received the highest Soviet decoration, the Order of Lenin...
...often done in the past 27 years. Alfred Stieglitz, photographer and art dealer, last week gave over his bleak, hospital-like Manhattan gallery to the paintings of his best friend. A wrinkled, shock-headed little man of 65, John Marin looks like a disheveled version of the late Sir Henry Irving. Because a new book on Artist Marin has just been published,* because critics like Henry McBride, Lewis Mumford and Julius Meier-Graefe have put themselves on record as considering John Marin the greatest water-colorist in the U. S., it was an important exhibit...