Word: gloom
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...Locker space is, of course, scarce. On this particular day, the club pro, Ralph ("Rip") Arnold, escorted me to the locker room and told me to shout for Granby, the locker attendant. I walked from the sunlight into the gloom of the locker room and sang out. About the third time I shouted, a quiet, pleasant voice said: 'Hi, Darby, you having a little trouble...
...gloom, I had been standing about a pace from the President, almost shouting in his face. Colorado Governor Dan Thornton, who was playing with the President that day, found Granby for me while the President and I chatted. Or, rather, the President talked and I gulped, trying to think of just how you go about apologizing for shouting in the President's face. The President allowed that it was great weather, that the course was in fine shape and that his game was going pretty well ('I got a birdie on the first hole this morning...
Critics lauded the first-rate production, including the staging, the orchestra (under the Vienna State Opera's Karl Boehm) and the highly imaginative sets (by German Designer Caspar Neher), which evoked a kind of Orwellian gloom amid Salzburg's sunny, baroque opulence. But critics reluctantly admitted that Von Einem's score itself was something of a disappointment...
Schoenberg: Second Chamber Symphony (Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by Herbert Häfner; Columbia). A two-movement work, the first dark with fin-de-siècle gloom, the second almost gay and dancelike for all its scattery orchestration. The performance has a labored sound, but is adequate for fans of atonal music...
...ance this evening," said Herbert Jarrow. And before long, he was in the middle of it; he was chanting a garbled version of the witches' incantations from Macbeth. Tapping Herbert's clasped hands, his daughter Grace whispered: "Mother is here. She has emerged from the Gloom." Mother Jarrow toddled in from the kitchen of their English cottage. "I am here, Herbert," she said, "I'm always near you, Herbert." :'But in a different world," insisted Herbert, "you died and I went...