Word: gloom
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Literary minded Poonsters came out of hibernation last night for their annual meeting in the mouldy gloom of their Sanotum...
German Fear. Of the German people, Brita confirmed the impression brought out by many untainted neutrals: gloom, apathy, disillusion, but above all, desperate fear of what will happen if they lose the war. Her guess: The Germans will fight to the finish...
Five coeds from Columbia University School of Journalism suddenly descended into the gloom, atwitter to cover election night at Tammany Hall. They chatted brightly with the little circle of politicos, took copious notes, departed. After they were gone, the silence was tomblike. From the radio came the monotonous chant of figures which told of the terrible beating New York Democrats had taken...
Smoke and Gloom. A stubby, stocky man of 54, with a bullet head and a grinding klaxon voice, John George Taylor Spink works seven days, six nights a week (Sunday nights off) fiercely turning out the weekly paper that is baseball's bible. In gloomy, smoke-stained offices on St. Louis' Tenth and Olive Streets, he explodes with ideas, runs up $1,400 monthly phone and telegraph bills and blasts forth the illimitable enthusiasm that makes The Sporting News so accurate and complete that even traditionally tight-fisted ballplayers buy it (15?) with their own money...
...Gloom is spreading through Hitler's Germany, and defeatism is rising. Elderly guards, men in their 50s, let prisoners listen to BBC newscasts. When asked how the war was going, the guards replied: "We are advancing like this," and marched backwards...