Word: gloom
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...course, Mr. Woodworth is at a disadvantage when he attempts to make the gloom of Sanders Theatre take the place of St. Mark's; but for at least one of the pieces he is using ingenious means to reproduce as far as possible the original conditions of performance...
...Wilcox said she had been depressed with the appearance of the men, the actions of everyone and the air of gloom she had found in Paris since her arrival. She said our appearance of fresh, healthy, crusading youth impressed her so much that she wanted to tell us so. Were we both mortified and proud! After a short chat she left, stating she was bound for England. Later I wrote to her from the front and received several very interesting and highly treasured letters...
Last week an unaccountable gloom settled over Washington, wrapping its marble palaces in melancholy thick as the wet grey fogs that float up from the Potomac. Congress seemed listless, disheartened, worried...
Away from telephones, snow, gloom, pressure, rumors and Term III, Franklin Roosevelt could take off his coat, sit in the sun, nap, read a murder mystery, flip cigarets into the blue Gulf waters-perhaps smile at the revival of the 1939 rumor* that he would meet heads of European Governments in midocean, there settle the world's hash. Last week he could have killed the rumor with a wink or a lifted eyebrow...
...attained much of this freedom by creating, during the 1920 Democratic convention in San Francisco, a disputatious Jeffersonian character named Godfrey Gloom, honorary sergeant at arms from Amity, Ind. Godfrey was conjured up as a one-day feature, but the Times editoriat liked him. They kept sending him to conventions for 16 years, summoning Davis back from free-lancing to keep Godfrey on the record. After the 1936 Democratic convention, Davis killed off his aging Jeffersonian, interring Jeffersonianism along with his bones, and no less a Times bigwig than Washington Correspondent Arthur Krock wrote his obituary...