Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pilot Jones, shrouded in whirling clouds, bucked the wind until he thought he was over Camden, then turned back to Newark. He missed Newark, missed New York, missed everything except a National Biscuit sign which flashed up once through the gloom, until he picked out an airway beacon...
...courtroom fell into a hush as, in a clear, well modulated voice Judge Allen began to read the decision. No sooner had she paused for a first swallow of water than TVA's General Counsel James Lawrence Fly broke into a broad grin. At the utilities counsel table gloom slowly spread over the face of the late Newton D. Baker's Cleveland law partner, William H. Bemis. For by the time Florence Allen, several gulps of water and 70 minutes later, had finished reading it was clear that TVA had scored a monumental legal victory...
Starting Before the Shower, six jittery horses dancing and rearing under jouncing jockeys in the gloom of a stormy afternoon, while a wall of white raincloud sweeps up beyond the white curve of the track fence...
...stout football squad handed the University of Wyoming a whacking 19-0 defeat in Laramie last week, but for the 450 Cheyenne businessmen who frolicked on a special Union Pacific train which carried them to the game, there was plenty of free music and beer to banish gloom. As the fleet 14-car special slipped back into Cheyenne that night everybody was content and all were indebted to Wyoming Eagle Publisher Tracy Stephenson McCraken who footed the $2,200 bill for the junket...
Returning from the races James ("Squibs") Thomas stumbled in the gloom of London's big, depressing Liverpool St. station, plunged headfirst into a 90-ft. mail bag post chute. Mrs. Thomas screamed, fainted. Husband James slithered downward in darkness, suddenly appeared on a moving belt in an underground post office. Three feet ahead on the wide belt danced his unharmed bowler hat. Mr. Thomas, likewise unharmed, was quickly sorted from the mail by postal employes, returned to his wife who cried, "Oh, Squibs...