Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boatswain James R. Ingraham, commanding a Coast Guard picket boat, shouted through the gloom of an early Florida morning last week at a fast little craft he had spotted on Biscayne Bay. "All right," came back a faint reply, but the boat, instead, went shooting off up Miami River...
...truth it is, indeed, but rarely that the Vagabond has the good fortune to encounter humor of this type: certainly it would scarcely be appropriate for example in the echoing halls where a bronze Emerson stares through the dusky gloom. And, lest some should say that he has descended wholly from the "quality group" literarily or intellectually he will hasten to suggest the following lectures to those whom let us say the spring, has made less frivolously minded...
Gorky, world-famed as a beetle-browed dramatist, storyteller, vagabond, and apostle of gloom (The Lower Depths), has decided that the mass of Russian journalism, directly under Soviet control though it is, is far too self-critical. Our Achievements will paint only the bright side of Soviet life...
Every day in Manhattan hundreds of Interborough Rapid Transit subways charge through the warm odorous gloom underneath the streets. Uptown they soar to daylight on elevated tracks, downtown they dip beneath the east river to Brooklyn. I. R. T. advertisements say that 1,000,000 people ride them daily. Each ride costs a nickel. I. R. T. potentates have long claimed that the nickel fare is not enough to meet expenses...
...absolutely without precedent," since no such mighty leviathan has ever burned in course of construction. Result: the prevailing London rate of 8% for a "constructive total loss" was jumped to 15%. Most of the Europa insurance was placed in Hamburg, thus adding more murk to the city's gloom. Unofficially it was said that the N. G. L. had expected an increase in revenue of 20% when the Bremen, Europa and newly re-engined and speeded Columbus should be put in service. Shares of the N. G. L. were placed on the U. S. market last November by Direktor...