Word: cheerlessness
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...cheerless birthday party took place in white-haired Commissioner O'Ryan's office. An oldtime militiaman, John Francis O'Ryan joined New York's smart 7th Regiment in 1897, was abruptly promoted from major to major general commanding all State troops in 1912. In 1916 he led the New York national guardsmen to the Mexican border, two years later went to France at the head of the 27th Division. He served with distinction, was the only militiaman to retain his command of a division throughout the War. His men selected for their divisional insignia a starry arm-patch supposed...
...climbers. But a day of reckoning comes: there is no Eden without the tree of the knowledge of right and wrong. Selina Jacox, stern, avaricious, grasping all she could hold, becomes the millionaire apricot Queen, known all over the country, and lived out her lonely days in a cheerless mansion, bejeweled and embittered, fabulously wealthy in money, but poor in everything else. Jim, the illegitimate son of her kindly, easy going husband, Captain Jacox of the "River Belle", is trained in the ways of Selina, and sacrificing love, honor, friendship, everything to the lust for power, dies unsatisfied...
Tipped off by the local U. S. Consul, who had been tipped off by China's Nanking Government, 144 U. S. residents of Foochow, capital of rebel Fukien Province, last week scuttled out to a cheerless island in Foochow's River Min. At Amoy 125 mi. to the south the U. S. colony scuttled to another island...
...Down another flight of stairs to a dank subcellar aged Mr. Ridley would go. The air smelled like cool glue. Here, where once had been a well whence Mr. Ridley provided his tenements with cheap water of questionable purity, the strange, 88-year-old man had partitioned off a cheerless office. There were two iron safes, a high counting desk and swivel stool where his clerk sat, and Mr. Ridley's rolltop desk. Neither of the occupants ever took off his rubbers or overcoat. In their Dickensian foxhole they shared a lunch of bread and cheese...
...play opens in cheerless Cottage D of a midwestern reform school. Onto this scene is led a collection of small, wary ruffians: Little Deadman ("He won't let nobody touch him"); pudgy Pieface; Horsethief, whose malady is obscure and horrid. Poison mean is Roy Wells (John Drew Colt), ringleader of the potato-peeling "Centipede's Club." Robert Locket (Edwin Philips) is the most sensitive young prisoner, a fact which early bodes him ill. In him Mrs. Sanger, wife of the weak cottage supervisor, takes a strange and unnatural interest...