Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days. The fear that First National, the "Baker Bank," would pare its $25 quarterly payment, sent First National stock tumbling $135 per share to $1,680. Not until Guaranty Trust, First National and other Manhattan banks declared their usual dividends did the bank-share market shake out of its gloom...
...glass. The bald, Slavic head with scrubby, rufous beard and mustache rested on a silk pillow. From the ridge of the glass enclosure shielded lights glowed on the waxy features of the man who proclaimed the World Revolution of the World Proletariat. Other light there was none. Through that gloom, by last week, more than 8,000,000 persons had passed. Last year Scientists Zbarsky & Vorobev, permanent caretakers of the corpse, were awarded the Order of Lenin, highest Soviet honor...
...week emerged George V's venerable uncle, the Duke of Connaught. Third and only surviving son of Queen Victoria, Arthur William Patrick Albert Windsor is the one member of the Royal Family today who dislikes publicity. Last week, habited in a sweeping mantle of ancient cut, he entered the gloom of Westminster Abbey preceded by the official known as King of Arms...
...book has a personal hero, it is Charles Sumner of Massachusetts who talked much of the Negro in the Senate but refused to hobnob socially with him outside. Yet if readers remain immersed in Du Bois's murky history until their eyes have grown accustomed to its gloom, if they are willing to feel their way cautiously through a tangled thicket of quotations and statistics, they are likely to judge Black Reconstruction a perplexing, provocative, exasperating piece of work, in which the author has assembled an amazing mass of little-known facts, not all of them supporting his racial...
This story of a Dutch rubber planter during the pre-War boom and the post-War gloom will not seem to U. S. readers so colorful as Conrad's nor so mordant as Maugham's. But as a straight report of a planter's life from A to Z it is a first-rate job. As a novel it cannot be rated quite so high...