Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week included the annual White House reception to the Supreme Court, the dinner for the Speaker of the House, and a talk with David Lilienthal about TVA. President Roosevelt ended in highest spirits a First Administration which had begun amid national gloom. At the Speaker's dinner he leaned toward Maine's Senator Frederick Hale, solemnly declared that the chief of protocol had had great difficulty in seating the evening's guests because of the presence of the "Ambassador from Maine." At his press conference next day a jesting newshawk asked if the Navy...
...their cavernous new marble chamber, against their rich red velvet backdrop, the nine U. S. Supreme Court Justices looked magnificent but could hear little. To improve acoustics, more red velvet curtains were draped at either end of the bench. Result was to cast the justices into shadowy gloom. Last week the red curtains, side and rear, were swathed in white, and only in the front half of the chamber were inverted ceiling lights switched on. Thus the audience was thrown into shadow, the black-robed old actors into brilliant relief...
Late in the afternoon Nominee Landon returned to Topeka for a quiet dinner with his family and a few close friends. Other friends began dropping in at the big, yellow and white Executive Mansion. The radio was on full blast. Out in the garage, press tickers clattered busily. The gloom which had hung over the Landon campaign train in all its travels about the country began to settle over the Landon parlor as the radio announcers kept shouting monotonously: "Roosevelt ahead in New York, Roosevelt has lead in Pennsylvania, Roosevelt has 2-to-1 lead...
...comes in contact. He plays to win, but defeats--and the simon pures will always get their full share--do not upset him unduly. If the team has done its best, he can begin another week after a crushing loss with no regrets, enveloped in no cloud of gloom. And who is there now to say that he is not an able coach...
...Largo Caballero was appointed "Supreme Chief of the Military Forces of Spain" and Julio Alvarez del Vayo "General Commissioner of War," in a two-way attempt to exercise political control over the Red Militia. As the White offensive rolled nearer & nearer to the capital, Madrid became a city of gloom and darkness. Gas for cooking and heating had been cut off. Places of entertainment closed early. To stir up the inhabitants' flagging spirits notices were pinned up in the streets, "Men of Madrid ! Will you allow your women to be raped by Moors !" The women themselves were similarly exhorted...