Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus the League of Nations was faced with Nazidom's next demand even before the League Council could get around last week to deciding how and when to give Germany the Saar. In Geneva all was gloom. The League plebiscite had produced a result diametrically opposed to the sympathies of most League statesmen, however much they had discounted it in advance. Glumly they agreed to hand over the Saar on March 1 to Germany-a nation which stalked out of the League as haughtily as did Japan...
...herald the renaissance of Harvard basketball last year, a renaissance devoutly to be wished after dark ages under the tutelage of Ed Wachter, local fans and wise-acres tossed caps in air and cheered for the undefeated season that was to come. When it didn't appear, dark gloom settled again, but Fesler persevered, with the encouragement and critical advice of Big Bill Bingham, in his attempt to instill the rudiments of the game into his charges. Now it seems that he has succeeded. The last period victory that his merry men dragged down on Saturday must have afforded...
...night last week five candelabra flickered through the gloom of Boston's Union Congregational Church-the church in down-at-heel South End to which Rev. Dwight Jacques Bradley went after relinquishing a swank one in Newton, Mass. (TIME, Sept. 24). A mixed congregation of 600 gazed in interested bewilderment at a slim, bare-foot girl in the chancel. She wore nothing but a long flowing gown. Her name was Eleanor Schirmer and she was a Newton socialite whose father was a Boston banker...
...York, Nov. 13--United States Davis Cup hopes for 1935, already on the wane, reached new depths of gloom tonight with the signing of Lester Stoefen for professional tennis...
...with Winthrop yesterday afternoon, just as dusk was falling over Soldiers Field. An attempt to convert the extra point by a line buck was stopped by inches. After the kickoff there were three play before the game ended, all passes, and all intercepted in the gathering gloom...