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...wanted to help. Hundreds of gossips wrote the Federal Bureau of Investigation volunteering to spy on their neighbors. To Washington flocked businessmen, big & small, proffering services. The President ordered memos drafted by all of his aides, their ideas to be boiled into a page. The Capitol combined the worried gloom of the last Hoover days with the rampant confusion of NRA Blue Eagle times...
...especially when the tiny yellow flames spurted and gave his fact a ruddy gleam easily mistaken, he thought, for the flush of ambition of a young man about to graduate from Harvard. "But what do you want to be." came the quiet voice from the huge chair in the gloom beyond the firelight. Vag shuddered. That question again. His classmates who where set on being doctors or lawyers were certainly lucky. So were the future business men, the Detur possessors about to be section men, the drifters in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. These things were...
Despite the seeming optimism of his title, Sherwood provides no pick-me-up for audiences with headline hangovers. Through the Finnish gloom, Sherwood sees no light of imminent world salvation. He only argues, rather vaguely, that because glamor and heroics have at last gone out of war, men are that much closer to understanding war's horrors, and so ending them...
Along Manhattan's Jacobs Beach-a babbling little strip of sidewalk outside Boxing Tsar Mike Jacobs' 49th Street ticket office-there was gloom one day last week. Promoters, matchmakers, managers, trainers, seconds and the miscellaneous collection of has-beens and hangers-on who make a daily appearance at pugilism's trading post, shook their heads, dumfounded. For "Yussel the Muscle." their most picturesque colleague, and only 43 years old. had died of a heart attack the night before...
...turkeys, the cables made me cry more. I hated to leave America as never before. Though, always it has been a wrench. It is hard to turn one's back on light and wealth and lavish welcome and illusion, only to meet again with the dark struggle, poverty, gloom, dread and want...