Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrapped in obscurity. Says Wassermann: he told conflicting tales about his origins, his early experiences. "He was as morose as a monk, crafty as a peasant, without a glimmer of humor-a character unrelieved by a single ray of cheerfulness. A man of sighs and lamentations, misery and gloom. But for all that, his capacity for suffering and his patience in the bearing of it were prodigious and are strangely touching, like stories from the life of a saint. He learned almost nothing, and knew everything that might serve his ends. He was sickly, and bore the most incredible hardships...
...avalanche of criticism so that all that remains of the instance is that Harvard has made a terrible mistake. After the ball is ever a press release makes its appearance, carefully explaining that all is well, and optimistically presupposing that this shaft of illumination will dispel the gloom of several weeks accumulation. The press started the excitement and now the University steps reluctantly into the limelight in an attempt to set matters right, but unfortunately, the melody lingers...
...clasping infants in whose dimpled countenances no inherited austerity was yet apparent. There were also children alone, their small faces made charming by the possession of some perennial secret; and there was the picture of an Indian in his canoe on a dark river, who stared through a subaqueous gloom of trees at a bird, moving above him on white, tremendous wings. In all these canvases was the sure, lucid draughtsmanship which is Painter Brush's most notable talent and which explains, more than any other characteristic, the presence of his paintings in five important U. S. museums...
Master Lambton is "The Red Boy," a quaint and pensive child in red velvet seated on a rock overlooking a? landscape of transparent gloom. Master Lambton was the eldest son of the first Earl of Durham; he died in 1831 at the age of 14. His father paid Sir Thomas Lawrence a little more than $3,000 for his portrait...