Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report pregnant with gloom...
...19th monthly report of Dutch Dr. Zimmermann, League of Nations Commissioner General in Austria, was, like most of its predecessors, pregnant with gloom...
...Yovanovitch said he would try and went his way trying to coax a coalition Government into existence. No one was hopeful, no one gave him any encouragement, all was gloom; but M. Yovanovitch went on trying...
...14th (penultimate) round of their fight for Tunney's U. S. light heavyweight boxing title. Policemen subdued Descamps. Referee Griffin seized Tunney's right hand, held it aloft, said: "You win, Gene!" The scene had taken place on a brilliantly illuminated platform in the centre of a gloom-filled amphitheatre. At Griffin's gesture, pandemonium burst from the darkness on all sides. Some 40,000 throats concatenated anger and approval but none save the fighters knew certainly whether a foul blow had been struck. A majority of sport experts, craning from the ringside, exonerated Tunney, credited...
During the past week, the Lord High Chancellor took his seat on the Woolsack* and their lordships debated the bill. From amid the encircling gloom arose Dr. Herbert Hensley Henson, whose style is the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Durham, 86th of those to hold that dignity. The Bishop, so the story ran, "jolted" his fellow Bishops by telling them: "Better a free Britain than a sober one." Such simple, wet words from a leader of the church militant had effect in defeating the bill by 166 to 50 votes. Their dry lordships continued to hold fast to their...