Word: downheartedness
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By no means downhearted or broke, gay Brazilians have just spent an estimated $7,000,000 on their uproarious three-day Mardi Gras Carnival (Feb. 26-28). celebrated amid sizzling, record summer heat by nearly a million merrymakers.
In Cork last week the Free State's No. 1 industry stood still. Henry Ford's workmen were striking. Depression had shut Northern Ireland's leading shipyards?but Irishmen were not downhearted. Whatever happens the Irish are still on a primarily agricultural basis, can feed and clothe themselves.
Despite the gloomy outlook of the hotel business last week neither Lucius Boomer nor Oscar was downhearted as the day approached when Banker Charles Hayden would start the register with his name and be given credit card No. 1. Average figures from the depressed hotel industry did not daunt them...
Biltmore Junta. In Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, at least, the revolution went on bravely. As in 1895 the revolutionists established propaganda headquarters in New York to drum up U. S. sympathy, collect U. S. dollars. Head of the Biltmore junta was an elderly, pachydermal gentleman named Dr. Domingo Mendez...
Audiences in Columbus were not particularly warm toward the play. Adapted from Julia Peterkin's Pulitzer prizewinning novel, its first drawback was that the dialog was in Gullah.* And Actress Barrymore's facial expressions, under cork, were hard to see, especially since the sets were made too dark...