Word: gloom
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...slight cloud of gloom settled ever tomorrow's prospects when it was found that both Jack Calhoun and Lou Vorley would be missing from the lineup. Vorley, who was high scorer last week when the Carrmen wreaked their vengeance on Williams with a 4 to 3 win, surrenders his position to substitute Danny Poor. Calhoun has missed two weeks of play since his outstanding performance in the official opener against Tufts...
More significant than the gloom among the sedentary, grumbling Republican professionals was the continued parade of bolters to Willkie, evidencing the belief that this man's cause was just, even if he was a successful businessman...
...university. To the shirt-sleeved sons of Penn seated in camp-meeting chairs on the Quadrangle grass, it spoke of Founder Ben Franklin, of Philadelphia, cradle of U. S. freedom, of old-fashioned sanity. But the ancient bell merely interrupted, did not dispel the hush of uncertainty and gloom that hung over Penn's Bicentennial...
Then up rose Herbert Hoover, ex-President of the U. S., and proceeded to plunge the gathering again into gloom. Mr. Hoover undertook to picture the post-war world to come. He predicted that dictators would control 60% of the world's people and 40% of its trade, warned that if the U. S. entered the war it, too, would become a dictatorship. He bade the U. S. prepare to do business with the dictators. Said he: "The idea of the free States combining against the totalitarian nations in trade is just nonsense. The world has to live...
...three days later at Coffeyville, Kans., where he had taught high school. Willkieites counted on that speech to do what his acceptance speech at Elwood had failed to do: set the Willkie drive on fire. If the Coffeyville speech did not do it, GOPoliticians would have good cause for gloom. Aboard the train were skeptical newspapermen, the candidate's staff of amateur advisers, Mrs. Willkie in a grey hat and coat, Son Philip, Brother...