Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trudging off down Harvard Street side by side with the reporter, Jack was a blue-coated symbol of the declaration of Herodotus that "neither heat nor cold nor sun nor rain nor gloom of night shall stay these carriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," which is emblazoned in the stonework of the New York Post Office. "This is fine work for keeping a man in shape," declared Jack. "I haven't missed a day yet," he added with Hibernian earnestness, "and I don't ever intend to miss...
...performances by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall last fortnight, most of their talk ran on the "spectacle" Conductor Leopold Stokpwski had provided. Hoping, he said, to enhance the beauty of his music, and free the ear from distraction by the eye, he had hidden his orchestra in gloom (TIME, Oct. 18). But he had placed himself under a refulgent yellow spotlight. The latter, he explained, was a necessary evil. A conductor must be seen by his men. Unkind critics said that Dr. Stokowski had been bitten by the David Belasco show-off bug. The kindest ones declared that...
...began to wonder. The Navy sank the Princeton bark, 27 to 13, a close victory over Lehigh and a four-touchdown verdict over the Quakers from Sophomore have been the only other engagements. By the time Palmer Stadium saw the naval antics of the midshipmen, the injuries and the gloom at Princeton were at their worst. Since that day three weeks ago, much has been happening in the New Jersey town, how much no one will know until this afternoon...
...after a ceremony majestic but depressing. Edward of Wales, in short, had solemnly unveiled a monument at Westminster Abbey. "In memory of the one million dead of the British Empire who fell in the Great War." Moreover President (Premier)** William Thomas Cosgrave of the Irish Free State had added gloom to the unveiling by refusing to attend. His absence, he explained, was out of respect to the "pain" still felt by Free Staters at the use of British troops to put down the Dublin uprising...
...Manhattan, a Bach choral prelude and Brahms's C minor symphony issued in rapturous perfection from the gloom of old Carnegie Hall. Even a tone poem about a Prophet, in phrases and measures twisted to tortuous futurity by one Ernest Pingoud, 26-year-old Swiss with a Russian upbringing, became articulate; for in the gloom was hidden the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski. But the audience was slightly disconcerted during this notable visit. Desiring to "intensify the mystery and eloquence and beauty of the music" Conductor Stokowski had made his men invisible, with only steady little stars on their...