Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Theodore Roosevelt, parked against a fence in Groton, Mass., one warm afternoon last week and brooded. He gazed in distaste at his books, at Groton School. The reflection that his father was adventuring in the South Seas added nothing to his contentment. The bright sunshine increased his gloom. He fished out his wallet, thoughtfully counted $8. He turned to his spectacled, 13-year-old companion, Henry Wyse Distler, son of a Baltimore engineer. "Come on," he said abruptly. Without more ado they set off rapidly down the road, books...
...Students need to be told how easily course work can accumulate, and lucky is that undergraduate who has escaped the horrors of the cramming procedure which ensues when the day of reckoning looms. The routine of frantic review, late hours, neglect of exercise, tension, gloom, and the search for stimulants is a familiar if unwelcome specter. And the search for stimulants has not been fruitless. Last spring the resort to benzedrine was momentarily popular until "debunked" as habit-forming. This spring the answer seems to be caffein pills, which, it is claimed, are some ambrosian and utopian pick...
...floe, meanwhile, in the gloom of Arctic winter, Leader Ivan Papanin glimpsed the searchlight beam from an icebreaker 40 miles away. That was the Taimyr, laboring toward them through the pack ice. At 20 miles, the going was so difficult that the Taimyr's commander thought of trying to blast a channel through the pack, but this plan was discarded as impractical. The men on the "station" marked out with flags a safe landing place on the ice near their floe, and the first contact was made by airplane...
There was no special section of enthusiastic supporters to accompany the Crimson squad to Canada this year. Rather Coaches Joe Stubbs and Skeets Canterbury with fifteen players and four managers quietly departed in their sleeper in an atmosphere of gloom...
...Holton complained to Mitchell. "I do not wear long pants just because they become me." But Author Mitchell hits the authentic Lardner note most strongly in The Pickle Works, a brilliant sketch of Jimmy Durante. nursing a hangover and memories of his youth at a rehearsal, talking himself from gloom to good humor until he launches on a flight of Broadway poetry: "The stage may be the pickle works to some people, but it's a big box of candy to me. Look at that blonde. ... I should be paying the boss for the privilege of working here...