Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spectre of Harvard impotence in sport is laid. The hockey team has delivered the first blow to the bogey of Crimson disaster. The autumnal gloom, deepened by defeats which were foreseen and could not be averted, is dispelled in a cheerier season. The pride of Yale has skated to a tumble...
...cold November day in 1885, King Alfonso XII breathed his last as the oppressive gloom of winter settled over Madrid. His royal spouse, the Habsburg Maria Christina, became Regent for her five-year-old daughter Maria-de-las Mercedes. In Spain, the season of the people's discontent was upon them. Progressive ideas were seething in reactionary cauldrons. Under a Queen such as little Maria, who was sure to be dominated all her life by her mother's ideas, Spain could only expect to see the new wine of her progressive aspirations poured down the neck of the grandee...
...like a promising young member of the Stock Exchange; where the World, like a self-made man with brains, ideals and a deep vein of cynicism, cloaks terse and forceful thought beneath a lively flow of front-page vulgarity; where the Sun, heavy but active, moves with a great gloom upon its brow?among these the Post seeks to stand as the incarnation of corporeal perfection and easy omniscience, relying upon its presence and a certain lofty but ingratiating manner of address to win public plaudits...
...land vigorously dramatic. Some forty years ago Edmund Clarence Stedman, lamenting "the twilight of the poets," predicted that the next important movement would be in the theatre. It might not be easy to convince the free versiflors that their genius is fading in crepuscular gloom. But the playwrites have no doubt whatever that they are ascending the skies on the car of Aurora. Young and old, they are up and doing in the tank town and the university no less than in Broadway. If the eager groping of the many proves wiser than those who are appointed to guide...
...conditions under which the convicts have to labor. "But the most terrible part of it all is the condition of the men after a few years there--their wasted and diseased bodies and their pathetic faces, from which hope has long disappeared. Ev-everything about them is expressive of gloom and tragedy, from the sharks that gather about the island when the death of a convict is announced by the tolling of the bell, to the dead convicts found outside the dormitories after the night brawls, in which the guards don't dare to interfere. I was quite glad", concluded...