Word: gloom
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...this mean that the New York market had a long rise ahead? No Wall Streeter would climb out on this limb. In fact, many were betting the other way. But for the nonce the cheer overbalanced the gloom...
...operator noticed she wore a tan polo coat, dark slacks, and sport shoes. She had no bag. The street lights along Riverside Drive made pale yellow pools on the drifted snow, but beyond, Grant's Tomb and the park sloping down to the Hudson River were lost in gloom. That was the morning of March...
...Hull's office trooped 21 of 24 freshman Republican Representatives. All were internationalists and consistent supporters of Mr. Hull. They had written him a respectful letter requesting "some explanation of your puzzling silence" about concrete U.S. foreign policy. After 150 minutes the 21 Republicans emerged wrapped in gloom. Said Maine's Robert Hale, onetime Rhodes scholar: "Mr. Hull was cordial and courteous, but I left with the same impression that I had when I went in-that the Administration has no foreign policy." New York's Bernard W. Kearney was briefer: "No hits, no runs, no errors...
...been told of the battle. They reminded the General: 1) that a BBC broadcast, day after the Jan. 22 landings, had been responsible for too much cheer by reporting that "Alexander's brave troops are pushing towards Rome . . . should reach it within 48 hours"; 2) that the subsequent gloom, when the German counterattack was conscientiously reported, had not been helped by official statements at home. Up spoke the Chicago Daily News'?, belligerent William Stoneman: "The biggest scare of all was given by the President of the United States...
While many a student-soldier could close his books with a grin at the prospect of active service, the colleges were grey with gloom. Those without Navy contracts or women students were hardest hit: the Army planned to reimburse colleges for the balance of its go-day terms, but faculties had been organized and paid for the academic year...