Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vice President Nguyen Ngoc Tho insisted: "This is an internal affair." Saigon's lively, neon-lighted Chinese city of Cholon was plunged into deep gloom. Grocers closed their doors, sat in front of their shops reading newspapers. Depressed by the slump in business, the queen of Cholon's call girls took an overdose of sleeping pills as the shortest route to the shades of her ancestors, was escorted to her grave in a red teak coffin by a weeping procession of old customers...
...Geoffrey Beaumont is a learned and dedicated man of the cloth. In the gloom of his musty church in London's Camberwell section, he conducts services for his working-class parishioners in language hallowed by generations of solemn Anglican usage. But when he sits down at his creaky upright parlor piano, he is likely to let himself go in the foot-stomping rhythms of the South Side jukeboxes. Last week he held a little party at the vicarage to display an unusual wedding of his two talents: a Mass set to popular rhythms and already known...
Gauguin, Dufy, Vlaminck. Their masterpieces split the gloom of the gallery with a luminosity that never glowed from any canvas that had been brushed with paint. They were not paintings, but transcriptions of paintings done in a new technique -and there were signs that they might be here to stay...
...gloom for the varsity, which finds Pete Reider favored in the two-mile, and Joel Cohen and Joel Landau figured to place high in the hurdles, one of Cornell's weakest events...
...picture awards, a low moan could be heard from some critics. The American film comedy, it seems, was showing signs of mortal illness. Perhaps the plaints were a little premature, because the very end of the year brought The Rainmaker, which, while not bright enough to dispell all the gloom about the future of comedy, is still a much better than average motion picture...