Word: gloomiest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...optimism was certainly more pronounced than pessimism. Stock brokers were far more pessimistic than businessmen. Being, especially in the lower ranks, a provincially Manhattan lot, they seemed to think the Stockmarket would be disgraced if Business did not humbly follow its lead. Outside of lower Manhattan, Detroit was the gloomiest spot, the depths being reached by the jocular motor executive who seemed to feel that never again would any U. S. citizen be able to buy anything except a Ford. Following are three typical "results" variously predicted...
Along with flowers and music over the water and the other ingredients of operettas and romance, the theory and practices of the Junior Dance passed through an extremely drab period this winter. That gloomiest two weeks in January marked likewise the high point of opposition; since then, appeal to the class as a tribunal has brought enough Ayes to quicken the rejuvenation and to maintain for at least this year the tradition of the Dance...
That Ferguson Family. Christmas week in the theatre is a time of plenty but not always one of jollity. While the holly wreaths hang high, the gloomiest producers, among them Gustav Blum, creep out with their dire presentations. Blum's latest bit of hardware was not so dull as festive critics found it, though not so good as its author, Howard Chenery, tried to make...
...years ago bootleggers were the theatrical mode; in the season now approaching its gloomiest hour, actors have been studied in their native haunts. Next season newshawks will be dragged whining from their typewriters and flung upon the stage. One scheduled play about newspaper folk is Gentlemen of the Press by Ward Morehouse, who writes dramatic notes for the New York Evening Sun. In this a genuine columnist, Russel Crouse of the New York Evening Post, will try acting. Another is The Front Page, by Ben Hecht and Chas. McArthur, sponsored by Jed Harris, which received a tryout in Newark last...
...gloomiest part of Secretary Hoover's report for the business year that began July 1, 1926 and ended June 30, 1927, related to farm products. The report, published last week, stated that during that fiscal year the value of crops and animal products, deducting crops fed to animals, used for seed and wasted, was $12,080,000,000. The previous fiscal year it had been $12,670,000,000. Cause: Low cotton prices last year and depression in the prairie states. The coal business had not been prosperous, nor the textile business...