Word: downcast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fill his vacancy a special election was called. Democratic leaders raged in despair when six of their party rushed into the contest against one Republican. In far-off Washington President Hoover, nervously aware of the election's significance, called for the returns, studied them with downcast eyes. For him they spelled another defeat because a Democrat by the name of Richard Mifflin Kleberg was elected. The President needed no political statistician to tell him that this meant that the House, his legislative mainstay for the last two years, was now lost to him, that it would line...
...panicky interview of February 1918. in which he predicted a 60-day food crisis and blamed rail congestion. After some fruitless correspondence Mr. Hoover, with his legal adviser, called at the McAdoo office. Writes Mr. McAdoo: "Glasgow [the legal adviser] did all the talking. Hoover sat with downcast eyes, like a diffident schoolboy. I do not recall that he had anything to say. Glasgow told me . . . Mr. Hoover regretted his statement [and] that its publication was a mistake. ... I said I thought Mr. Hoover should make his complaints to me and not to the public through the newspapers. . .. Mr. Glasgow...
...Miss Brice when she chooses her next picture ? its burlesque is far more successful than the elaborate cabaret scenes, or that expected moment when the star, discovering that the man for whom she has sacrificed everything, whom she has made successful, has be trayed her, sings alone and downcast a ballad of unrequited loyalty. As the fighter whom she coaxes out of a cabaret and into a gymnasium, Robert Armstrong, who makes a specialty of playing stupid fight ers, gets several laughs. Best shot: the big fight between Armstrong and McCloskey, when Fannie Brice yells to McCloskey...