Word: gloom
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Loretta Young had quite a time in London. She curtsied to the Queen at a command performance; she saw the city's patched-up ruins; she thought it simply wonderful how plucky the British were in their gloom-bound island. When she got safely home to California, she poured out her impressions to sympathetic Gene Handsaker, an A.P. feature writer, who set it all down in heart-throbbing prose. Sample quotes...
From then on it was a series of ups and downs, of alternate raised hopes and deepened gloom. Holy Cross was eased under by a 7 to 0 count and things looked good; Dartmouth chiselled out a 14 to 13 win and things still looked good, but unlucky...
...best paintings recently produced in the U.S. In the center of the room towered a high-domed, uncomfortable-looking gentleman, who questioningly pointed out first one of his pictures and then another to a small cluster of admirers. He heard their praises in silence, with an expression of kindly gloom. When the chatter died away, Edward Hopper's paintings spoke for him, and spoke with concentrated force...
...Socialist Arthur Koestler wrote of Britain: "The problem of incentives is the most difficult and most important problem of Socialist economy [and yet] the massacre of incentives continues. The last bit of fun has been exiled from their drab lives in this country of Virtue and Gloom, with its mean vindictive Work or Want posters on every street corner; a slogan fit for a state orphanage or reformatory school, and which makes every self-respecting worker's stomach turn in disgust. . . . Two more years of this, and Labor will have irretrievably wasted its historic chance...
...action, and theatrical color for dramatic force. The stage set-a cross-section of Raskolnikov's swarming rooming house-is a fine device for squeezing in a lot of stray incident, but it virtually squeezes out Raskolnikov. Thick with debris that chokes the main story, full of garish gloom that feasts the eye but starves the emotions, Crime and Punishment winds up a bore...