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...make ready to go to Belgium, his next step toward Ambassadorial eminence. But their presence was completely eclipsed by the arrival four days earlier of another Ambassador named Joseph. Home from his complete capture of London was "Joe" Kennedy with flashing smiles for the press, a "long and somewhat cheerless" report to the President about conditions abroad, emphatic denials of any mission more secret than attending Joe Jr.'s class day exercises at Harvard...
Early last summer Amoskeag began closing down, mill by mill. By last September every gate was locked, every worker on the street. As dust gathered on Amoskeag's 20,000 cotton looms, the citizens of Manchester endured a bad winter, a cheerless spring. Amoskeag workers who had been getting $13 a week from the mills were thrown on relief at $2 per week with $1 more for each family...
...which the Founder had left precise specifications. In 1848 Girard opened its first class of 100 fatherless boys. Within the building, which a hostile press called "The Icy Ghost of Two Million Dollars," a hardboiled staff shaved the orphans' heads, scrubbed their necks, put them through a cheerless routine of study and frequent canings...
...dark and cheerless atmosphere of Memorial Hall shadowy figures, handling sinister revolvers will be observed by the inquisitive rodent inhabitants of the building...
...trunks and bags throughout the widening reaches of the University. It was a cruel world. There always must be trucks. But the chilly drizzle continued and the Vagabond was again at peace with the world. For just as there must be trucks there must be a drizzle. A cold, cheerless persistent drizzle that left blankets damp in the evening and clothes clammy in the morning...