Word: gloom
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...heart, wrenches the whole mood of Jane Eyre. But in the opening reels, little Peggy Ann Garner (as the child Jane), brilliantly abetted by Henry Daniell (as a demoniac preacher-schoolmaster), and by some loud-pedaled cinemaginativeness, establishes a nightmarish chiaroscuro of pity and gloom which, if sustained, might have made Jane Eyre a great picture...
...gloom, almost in despair, Novelist Louis Bromfield wrote last summer from his 1,500-acre farm near Mansfield, Ohio, "Though ours is the richest agricultural nation, our people are not going to have enough food. If it were possible, I would rather not think about next February." Last week Louis Bromfield survived the first week in "famine February" by eating well. So did the U.S. And War Food Administrator Marvin Jones, pooh-poohing Bromfield's prophecies, cheerfully boasted of surplus potatoes, eggs and canned goods...
...filled in the hollow. The results were gratifying, but not for long. After playing his instrument again, my patient was once again a picture of gloom. 'Doctor, my legato has improved . . . but now I lose my wind too quickly.' I partially closed up the arch in the bicuspid region. 'Fine,' said my patient after another experiment with his flute. [Then] the patient suddenly stopped and his face registered horror. 'Doctor, I'm losing my staccato...
...last week a "high Government official"-very high and very close to the President-decided that the U.S. people had become too complacent and needed another dose of gloom. Rounding up the regulars in the White House press room, he took them to a quiet room in the Mayflower Hotel and there, over oysters and drinks, gave them a "not-for-attribution" talk about his and the President's worries...
...Gloom and Room. Technicians noted with gloomy satisfaction that there was a significant difference between the new treaty and the 20-year Anglo-Soviet Alliance of 1942. The British treaty, by its own terms, would be superseded by any overall security pact among the nations. The Czech treaty has no such provision; it is a straight two-way proposition regardless of any general international agreement...