Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joseph Pennell, famed painter, etcher, published* a gasconade, prefaced with a diatribe?Etchers and Etching. Writing it, gall scored his pen; gloom puckered his mouth. In his foreword, he denounces, derides all others who have written about etching. The curator of prints in the British Museum, he is demolished; "poor old Hamerton" (Hamerton whose works have long been the only authority on etching), he is spurned. He employs many great names, many swaggering pronouns. "Whistler," says Etcher Pennell, "Whistler and I. . . ." "Whistler and me. . . ." Down the list of the world's immortal etchers he runs his pen, here scratching...
This improved line showing cannot be underestimated. It means that Yale will have to fight for every yard Saturday. Those gloom dispensers who are figuring the Eli score against Harvard by adding 34 to 10 are reckoning without the Crimson forwards. Yale will be the favorite. It would be foolish to hint otherwise. The prospect of a run-away score for the Blue is, however, remote, with the Crimson line functioning as it did yesterday...
...Australian prison ship which poked its ugly prow from city to city a year ago was decidedly a success as a side show. For a paltry half dollar the most virtuous could experience the fifth and gloom and foul air handed out to eighteenth century culprits. But while there was much exclamation of horror and much averting of noses there was relatively little conception of the ideas upon which such punishment was based...
Despite his gloom, the Doctor saw signs of improvement, but thought that the job of reconstructing Austria's finances would be longer than had at first been anticipated. He warned the Austrians to that effect. The granting of short term loans from abroad was a healthy sign, said...
...Gloom pervaded the church, save for the glare of one spotlight playing upon the speaker's platform. There stood the Rev. O'Farrell, gesticulating, shouting to make himself heard above a strange series of interruptions. Beside him, chattering, chirping, squeaking, a lively monkey tugged and chafed at the cord that tethered it to a broomstick. Brought into the pulpit by the preacher to advertise his bold sermon and to illustrate his bold points, the simian had to be held in place by the sermonizer's 12-year-old daughter...