Word: dolefullness
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Businessmen agreed. A doleful expression of Britain's growing disenchantment came last week from William J. Keswick, chairman of London's China Association: "The British stake in Shanghai is withering." Unless Communist China changes its tactics, said Keswick mournfully, "then clearly, whether we like it or not, the...
Like many another U.S. businessman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s Chairman Paul W. Litchfield was eager to start producing in Europe's prized hard-currency markets. The Netherlands was out of the question, since Litchfield's arch rival, Goodrich, already had a plant there. So was Belgium...
Restless young "J." Laughlin left Harvard after his freshman year, took off for a Wanderjahr in Europe. There U.S. expatriate writers filled his ears with a doleful cry: Why was there no publisher in America willing to take a chance on avant-garde writing? Laughlin went back to Harvard in...
In a London theater last week a quartet of actors, togged out as Prime Minister Clement Attlee with his Ministers Sir Stafford Cripps, Ernest Bevin and Herbert Morrison, sang a doleful parody of a tune from Oklahoma!:
In real life, boarding the Mauretania en route to the Washington conference on the British dollar crisis, Ministers Bevin and Cripps tried to be less doleful. They linked arms and beamed for cameramen. Bevin remarked that they were on "one of the most important missions in history." Someone yelled from...