Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eagerness with which such cure-alls are seized by the American public gives a very good indication of the general feeling of despondency and gloom caused by the depression. The average American is willing to grasp at a straw and to cling tenaciously until the last vestige of hope is withdrawn. It is a bad sign of the times. After Biocracy what? Cornell Daily...
Impatient to get hair and start making felt at once, the Ministry of Light Industry dispatched a special barbers & felters shock brigade to Gorki (once Nizhni Novgorod), seat of the Soviet Union's biggest truck factory. When the brigade arrived Gorki was plunged in gloom. Officials had just turned in their year-end report, admitted that during 1932 Gorkites built only 7,500 trucks, compared to the Five-Year Plan scheduled production...
...canvass of manufacturers throughout the United Kingdom revealed everything from smug satisfaction among British steel men last week to dismal gloom in the textile area, where mill owners said that under the new schedules they will have no advantage in competing with Canadian mills. Bitterly textile men recalled that the Mother Country's Chief Delegate at Ottawa was Stanley Baldwin of Baldwin's Ltd., famed British steel & iron works. In return for Canada's "favors" (such as they are) Great Britain will take an historic step, abandoning her sacrosanct principle of a "Free British Meal Table...
...lend itself to easy lampooning. Ridicule of the Democratic attack has been mostly superficial and clumsy. The only new personality to enter the campaign is the Forgotten Man, and no cartoonist knows who he is, where he lives, what he looks like. Over the whole political scene rests the gloom of hard times, with the electorate in no laughing mood. Affected by this atmosphere cartoonists are inclined to become draftsmen of despair, replacing good-natured fun with partisan bitterness, amusing irony with glum sarcasm...
William Danforth, lately stopped from the Mikado's throne, strode about in the mock-gloom of a black cape and hat, hissing patter-songs between his teeth, or bellowing out a sinister line a quartertone flat, to make your blood run cold...