Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than Camp Zakelo, Maine. Its director was Isadore Zarakov, celebrated onetime (1925-28) Harvard footballer and baseballer. Two of its counsellors were Alton K. ("Al") Marsters, last season's fleet Dartmouth quarterback, and Alfred C. ("Al") Lassman, husky All-American tackle for New York University in 1928. But gloom filled Zakelo a month ago. It was announced that "Al" Lassman had taken a canoe out at night in rough water, that the canoe had capsized, that Lassman had drowned (TIME, July 14). Director Zarakov did not deny rumors to the effect that Lassman, despondent over an old football injury...
...deep sea creatures, lured near by the fish bait, never before seen by man in their natural state. So great was the depth that only the blue and violet rays of the sun's spectrum penetrated, yet the submarine scene seemed brilliantly lighted compared to the gloom of the diving chamber when its electric bulb was turned...
Excerpts from Mr. Brookers gloom...
...ponderous French tomes it is written that the Due de Guise marshalled the nuptials in a suit of "frosted gold," that the King of France supplied the wedding ring, that bass-viols groaned, flageolets and hautboys tootled, that torch bearers lessened the gloom of Notre Dame (lit by electricity last week), and finally that the wedding dress of Mary Queen of Scots was "white as the lily with which it was embroidered, but so prodigally rich and gorgeous, glittering with diamonds and silver as to be TOO DAZZLING for words to describe," and of such weight that "two demoiselles bore...
...their traditional connotations of smoking bombs, unkempt whiskers, and savage red eyes. Loss and less are these experimental forms of government being feared. Lucretius says that children fear the dark; the dark, however, is only a place which is not yet light. Even the Carlsbad caverns have lost their gloom, but only those who have the light can see in the cave...