Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidency. One who might, if he were ever divorced from his present job, is Daniel Webster Hoan, now serving his seventeenth year as Mayor of Milwaukee. As head of a non-partisan Socialist Administration, Mayor Hoan has made his city a shining exception in the gloom of municipal insolvency...
...elation reflected in Hitlerite circles yesterday with von Papen's coup, today turned to gloom with the realization that they are unlikely to replace von Papen and General von Schleicher in power after the July 31 elections. . . . One of Hitler's lieutenants told me: 'Von Papen is picking all the plums and reaping all the glory that in reality belong...
General Dawes last week could have heard little but gloom from his steelmaking friends. The Chicago mills lost ground together with all others except those in the Youngstown district. Ingot production hovered around 18% of capacity. Detroit, which had been at 81%, fell to 75% and Pittsburgh was barely able to hold at 15%. Automobile production, with the exception of Ford, seemed about to slow up last week and Iron Age predicted many plants would be idle during the summer. The week's production was 52,560 units, a small gain over the previous week but 21% below last year...
Cause of the general rejoicing and the Marken gloom was the same: Holland remade her geography last week with the closing of the last gap in an 18-mi. dike between Wieringen and Friesland, thus putting an end to the famed Zuyder Zee. Some 500,000 acres of rich farmland will be reclaimed from the sea bottom when pumping operations are completed. The rest will make an inland lake (one-third the size of the original Zuyder Zee), to be known from now on as Ijsselmeer, in which the former fishing fleets of Volendam and Marken will be marooned...
...light talk. It seemed that his father had died when he was two, leaving his mother with several worldly children and a few ethereal dividends. There followed for him the public schools with their trials and tribulations, until in his senior year he saw, through the gloom of adolescent disinterestedness, the gleam of his future profession. It was all he had to his name--this desire for science. But it led him to the state university and on into Medical School. To make money he tutored in the winter; caddied, waited on table, managed a restaurant in the summer...