Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporters now refer to it as a rat-haunt, shudder at its squalid gloom. To Ben Day it was the amazing manifestation of a newspaper idea he had conceived, toyed with, but left to others to carry through...
...East Savannah, Georgia's First African Baptist Church, Marion Moultrie uprose to begin the service by which he would be ordained a minister. Beside the altar flickering oil lamps lighted the church's storm-cast gloom. Standing below the pulpit, prayer book in hand. Marion Moultrie began solemnly to intone: "We are gathered here this afternoon . . ." Crash! The church was glutted with sound and light. Marion Moultrie swayed, fell dead in the arms of a deacon. . . The blackamoors screamed, then set up such a wailing as they had never before achieved. Police came, took away the body with...
...capitals. Meanwhile the dollar lost some four cents more of its value, dropped to the equivalent of 77? gold. Rumors that this decline might jar loose the stabilized franc, plus London comment that the U. S. tariff proposals offered little more than pious hopes, plunged Conference journalists into such gloom that Prime Minister MacDonald decided to go among them radiating Scotch cheer...
...once chipper, elegant and insulting. Last winter Dwight Fiske progressed from speakeasies to Manhattan's most elegant café, the Mayfair Yacht Club. Last week two things made it appear that his celebrity- like that of Helen Morgan and Jimmy Durante who preceded him from the orchidaceous gloom of cabarets into the glare of Broadway and the cinema- would presently outgrow Manhattan. It was rumored that he was soon to leave the Mayfair Yacht Club for Hollywood where his wit, properly censored, would provide an element thus far missing (see p. 30) in musical productions. Last week also...
...French security. France still holds that she is menaced by Hitlerite Germany and dares not commence to disarm unless her security is guaranteed. In Geneva, almost unnoticed last week in London's preparations for the World Economic Conference (see p. 16), the World Disarmament Conference adjourned amid utter gloom to meet again July 3. Up at the last moment popped Japanese Ambassador Naotake Sato to read a 2,000-word declaration from Tokyo...