Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engaging relief from the recriminations and gloom of the newsman's treatise comes a lecture by Sir Frederick Whyte on the prospects of future international cooperation. The lecture was delivered and published under the auspices of the Milton Academy foundation, and in spite of Sir Frederick's post as Political Adviser to China, his tone is mild and historical. All this was done far more ably by Gilbert Murray in "The Ordeal of the Present Generation," with a keener and more tempered philosophical approach to the problem of nationalism and its justifications, but, as a lecturer, Sir Frederick has evidently...
...glass, hitherto frail Miss Gish stands out full-blooded and alive. Gone is her pastel shy- ness, gone are her girlish gasps as she takes the part of the murderess who gave up a pallid suitor to stalk Electra-like after her vicious father and his paramour through the gloom of their New England parlor, killing one with a walking stick, another with a flat iron. Actress Gish still has a strong hold on her part in the otherwise flabby final scene when, a misty old lady self-imprisoned at the scene of her crime, she still clings...
...great a hold had the insidious fluency of eighteenth-century prose, and its right-minded gloom upon the Vagabond that he too, for a while, could not be comforted by the thought of deliverance, or even by the subtle transformation in the air, as of vast changes brewing...
...Vagabond, April Hours are over. Where a few days ago it was March, and drab, it is now spring. Largely because of parietal restrictions applying to Memorial Hall Tower, love and the flowery path have played little part in the Vagabond's life; he has sulked in the gloom while others soared to free, empyrean heights. Yet now, with the advent of the vernal release, he feels strange stirrings deep within him. He clamps his unruly heart with all the force of the elaborate apparatus of inner standard given him by Professor Babbitt. But the bolts have rusted and weakened...
...knew Fredric Bickel at the University of Wisconsin. I was in some of the same college shows with him. In particular do I recall his appearance with Charles Carpenter in a Union Vodvil sketch in 1920 called, "Carpenter & Bickel, the Gloom Picklers" and in 1919 in an act with "Chuck" Carpenter in which they termed themselves, "Assassins of Sorrow." From the titles you can guess that they were comedians. Through all of these performances the thing that I remember distinctly is the extreme nervousness and stage fright of Fredric Bickel. Back stage before, during, and after each performance Fredric drank...