Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond shifted his green bag to a more secure position and splashed forward through the gloom. There are, be thought, far too many Crazy Mary's in this world. There is also too much snow...
...manager (Frank Morgan) likes Novarro's tunes but eyes the girl with more relish. He publishes her song, "The Night is Made for Love," the success of which enables MacDonald and Novarro to live in a glittering Paris flat. But Novarro, producing nothing himself, returns to Brussels in gloom. Miss MacDonald thinks he is tired of her. How she nearly marries the manager, saves Novarro's completed operetta from disaster and finally forgives him for leaving her make a typical musicomedy ending which in this case is done in Technicolor in a new three-color system...
...strode into the cavernous metal hangar in which was no dirigible but M. I. T.'s giant electrostatic generator (TIME, March 7, 1932). There they joined newsmen and M. I. T. engineers and miscellaneous scientists. In the gloom loomed the generator- two gleaming 15-ft. hollow aluminum balls, each atop a 25-ft. column of textolite, each column mounted on a massive four-wheel truck. The two trucks were on a single track which ran the length of the hangar and beyond. Small manholes opened into both aluminum balls which were rigged up inside as compact laboratories...
...Brien, who combines the effrontery of a lamp-post with the insouciance of a glassy-eyed codfish will leave New York the poorer for his passing, not only in the crassly material sense, but spiritually as well. For Honest John has in his own good way lightened the gloom of the morbidly shaded metropolis with the steady beam of a courage which has faced without flinching the unleashed terrors of double negatives, redundant participles, and hopelessly severed infinitives. Before the onslaught of mad sentences without verbs and facts without relevance his head remains bloody, but unbowed. With flags still flying...
...flight of the brokers ceased as suddenly as it began. And while Wall Street jubilantly referred to it as the "modern Boston Tea Party," New Jersey realtors plummeted into gloom. President Whitney of the Stock Exchange halted his workmen and negotiated a settlement with Newark's Mayor Ellenstein. The brokers' gesture had cost them some $100,000, but this they could easily meet with $100 initiation fees collected from the 1,300 applicants for membership in the proposed Jersey exchange...