Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...content with being 100% Americans, however, some editors proceeded to improve on nature by extravagant protestations. Such headlines as "WHOLE COUNTRY PLUNGED IN GLOOM" cluttered the press. Of course, no such thing was the case. Of 110,000,000 people considerably more than 99.9% had no personal acquaintance with the late President. To them he was a name, a picture, the holder of a respected office, the author of certain addresses which most had read in part and a few had heard. It was contrary to nature that these people should be " plunged in gloom." Nearly all went about their...
From the Stygian gloom of unutterable chaos, Chancellor Seipel and his satellites have lifted Austria to the dawn of better days. The crown has remained stable for months on end, when the currencies of some neighboring countries fluctuated widely. The number of civil servants has been reduced from...
...criticisms seem to be called for. The first is general. Although many of the line cuts, such as the unsigned comic heading for the contents on page 4, are cleverly executed, on the whole the drawings are amateurish, and some are conspicuously inadequate. The reviewer is plunged into gloom by the dismal title page which introduces him to the subject of scholarships (page 237), and the headings for pages 194 and 198 are clumsily drawn. Not that artistic talent is unusually lacking in the class of 1926, for on the whole the cuts in this book are at least...
...striking individual successes. For the Friends of the American Drama there are promising retrospects: in particular, Philip Barry, John Howard Lawson, Lulu Vollmer among the novices; Icebound, the Pulitzer prize play by the reformed Mr. Owen Davis-a solid if unspectacular contribution; The Adding Machine, with its satire, gloom and power; tangled recollections of a score of interesting things-the robots-James Barton's dancing-the lace-ballet in the Follies-the Texas Nightingale-the war scene in The Insect Comedy - Stanislavsky - the unfortunate " 49ers "-Cyril Maude -et cetera. At all events it was a rich and entertaining feast...
...popularity has lasted longer than most. From Literary Lapses to My Discovery of England his books have been funny with a certain consistency. Canadian by birth, professor of political economy by profession, a raconteur who has only one equal in my experience [Irvin Cobb], he is a solid, jolly, gloom- defying gentleman. Ruddy of countenance, with hair slightly graying and usually rumpled, a bristly mustache, large shoulders and a stocky trunk, he talks positively and punctuates his conversation with loud and infectious laughter...