Word: downheartedness
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Last Call. Gradually a crawling uncertainty seized the Hotel Roosevelt. Up in the candidate's suite, Dewey smoked one Marlboro cigarette after another in his aluminum holder. Young John fell asleep. At midnight, his brother Tom was sent to bed. In the ballroom people started to trickle out. An...
So far, the deal is not all beer & skittles. Latin America, like Canada, trades in U.S. dollars. Because their dollar supply is dwindling, all countries except Venezuela and Cuba are restricting imports. That means fewer profitable trips for Canada's traveling salesmen. But they are not downhearted. Said Canada...
John S. Sumner, tireless peeper for the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, clucked at current life & letters generally, but he was not downhearted. "The pendulum always swings wide from one side to another," said he. "The décolleté of the Directoire was followed by the...
But, according to Lilly Abegg, the Japanese are not downhearted. On Pearl Harbor Day, Japanese schoolboys tied pieces of white cloth around their heads, imitated samurai warriors going into battle; students paraded, sang in the streets. Wrote Lilly Abegg, perhaps with the Tokyo censor in mind: "One must have seen...
This happy line, from Sergeant Eddie Hartman's 1918 Variety notice of the Elsie Janis A.E.F. camp show, epitomizes the tone of troop entertainment in World War I. What it lacked in polish it more than made up in razzmatazz. Forthright, gangling, cartwheeling Elsie Janis was the greatest favorite...