Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House recoiled from this nose punch, Mr. Chamberlain tried to strike a more cheerful note by declaring that he would show no mercy to tax-avoiders, who deprive the Exchequer of millions of dollars each year. This raised a cheer but the House soon relapsed into gloom...
...really love, he agrees to her proposal that they cheat life by taking their own lives. It is only when he realizes that by exposing his soul, by writing his innermost thoughts and emotions, he can find happiness, that he sees the folly in this. Thus out of the gloom and depression of his adolescence, he finds the joy of living, and sees at last the way out of the depression of a Post-War world...
...final solution to the present problems rests on men. Officers must be found that are capable to dispel gloom, warm up support, and check the present day tide away from extra-curricular activity. For in their function of providing light and cheery entertainment, amusing to audiences and players alike, the Clubs hold a unique and vital position in the college scene. If capable officers are chosen and vigorously supported in their plans for the ensuing year, a few changes and readjustments will send the Clubs off to a new and a fast start...
Even more remarkable than his figures was Mr. Grace's own exuberance. Perhaps to counterbalance the perennial cheer of his colleague, Bethlehem's aging Chairman Charles Michael Schwab, hard-boiled Mr. Grace in interviews or statements is usually given to gloom. In his Manhattan office Mr. Grace now proudly declared: "We had tried in our December distributions to both preferred and common stockholders to use up all profits . . . on account of the tax on undistributed surplus. But we missed by a wide mark. We will pay to the Government about a quarter of a million dollars under that...
...clanging streetcars, cursing pedestrians piled up at the open bridgeheads, turned to fight their way back. Policemen shouted into dead telephones; their inter-communicating system was useless. State Street was bright with its private lighting system, and elsewhere in the Loop store lights and advertising signs glowed through the gloom, but most of the Second City's outlying streets were doused in country darkness. "It's the city's funeral, not ours," said Michael J. ("Umbrella Mike") Boyle, the bold boss who had called the strike. Long-time business agent for a Chicago local of the International...