Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having reached that dubious region buried in the gloom beneath the piers and buttresses of Manhattan Bridge the abused seamen dropped anchor in a more dubious appearing rendezvous already filled with many of their fellows. Being likewise thirsty their shadow followed. The newcomers were greeted variously. As they made their way into the group subtle, inference and thinly yelled insult were cast in their direction. The crew of a flag-ship always has a lot to live down. The badinage became more irritating; the rebuttal more spirited. Finally some intrepid soul had the temerity to observe that the crew...
...Gloom. James E. Baum, no glad-hand artist, told bankers that as deputy manager of the protective department, he must report a distressing fact. In the year ending Aug. 31, member banks of the A. B. A. suffered 177 daylight robberies and 28 night burglaries, an increase of 55% over the previous year...
...These cartoons are the work of two Hearst aces: Arthur Brisbane furnishes the ideas; T. E. ("Ton") Powers does the drawing. Some of the cartoons show ''Diamond Lil" leading a little animal, part dog, part man, labeled GLOOM...
...River Congo (larger than any other except the Amazon). By way of climax, they skirted the edge of the Great Pigmy Forest, one of the gruesome wonders of the world. Appalling, it is a place from which dense, choking creepers and great trees shut out the sun. In the gloom spiteful brown pigmies plant poisoned stakes and shoot poisoned arrows, to keep out both white men and black...
...unearthly din; his terrified dog crept under the mosquito netting with him. In a pool of moonlight a family of cats fought with a host of rats: danse macabre to the rhythm of warlike squeaks and terrific meows: Then sudden silence. A glistening cobra had glided out of the gloom. Glassy-eyed, cats and rats, man and dog, stared fascinated while the snake feasted upon a rat, upon a kitten...