Word: gloom
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There was gloom along the dingy staircase leading up over the grocery, and gloom in the drab corridor outside the apartment. But the Philadelphia reporter who climbed the stairs last week to pay a call on William Baird and his family found no gloom inside. Mrs. Baird had put some pork on for dinner. Her sons stood cheerful guard on the preparations as she called out, "Better watch that stuff or it'll burn up." One son, Robert, 20, could not walk, but he was as cheerful as the rest...
...half an hour before the Miracle Youth appeared, assorted assistants built up an atmosphere of gloom and doom. A choir from the local Zion Bible Institute offered a morbid song called "Night and Day." Many of the lines, like "night is so depressing," reminded one of the famous "Gloomy Sunday" which drove scores of Europeans to suicide. After this selection, a former African missionary made ecstatic comments, "If angels can sing as well as that, I'm going to heaven--how about you?" There were shouts of "Yes, Oh Yes Jesus" from the front rows. Then the "Connecticut Songbird...
Instead of the gloom-shrouded photography that has become standard in Hollywood melodrama, the movie wisely stresses the quiet, sunny atmosphere of a pleasant residential street...
Rumbled Winston Churchill: Did the Prime Minister have "any statement to make about the present position in the Political Committee of the U.N. General Assembly in respect to its policy towards China?" As Clement Attlee rose to reply, M.P.s could barely see across the chamber through the gloom. A member uttered the traditional parliamentary call: "Candles! Candles!" Electric lights blazed. During Attlee's ten-minute statement M.P.s sat anxiously silent. Churchill leaned forward intently, cupping a hand to an increasingly deaf...
...found herself engaged in a furtive and embarrassing job of housebreaking. She got quietly out of an automobile which had brought her up a woodsy Putnam County lane and left the car in the shadows. Then, flanked by three private detectives, she climbed a fence and sneaked through the gloom toward an unlighted summer cottage...