Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famous theory of dramatic katharsis, according to which men are supposed to purge themselves of dismal emotions by witnessing the enactment of tragedies still more dismal, seems to collapse before tragic authors in general, Theodore Dreiser in particular. An American Tragedy (1925) apparently did not dissipate, merely whetted his gloom. In Tragic America he looks for trouble wholesale, finds it just one more monopoly of the capitalistic system. "Actually an oligarchical group of lords in America is today seeking to enslave this great people. And, for that purpose, first seeking to debase it mentally." The implications are dreadful...
Gold's Gloom...
...long vista of warrantable gloom, this is indeed a cause of cheer. For not only have 92 per cent of the 24,345 students voting declared, in general terms, for reduction of armament; no fewer than 63 per cent have urged independent disarmament by the United States without waiting for other countries...
Bluebird. Only bluebird to chirp out in the committee's gloom was Director Walter Sherman Gifford of the President's own Unemployment Relief Organization. "I am still unable to find any grounds," he declared doggedly, ''for questioning the effectiveness of local, county and State public and private agencies and the thousands of voluntary committees and organizations to meet the present emergency...
...Milk beverage, were around 25% less than during the same period of 1930. The figures were $23,459,130 against $29,851,069. Nor has the cherubic Hershey Trade Mark (see cut) had less reason than usual to symbolize smilingly Health, Purity and Nourishment. But there has been no gloom around the big, clean plant at Hershey, Pa. Those neighboring Mennonites who did not join the hegira to Brazil in 1928 still sniff the sweetish air, still curse their feeble appetites and mutter about "da chockle shtink" that permeates the neighborhood. Founder Milton Snavely Hershey, a ruddy-faced...