Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steel Corp. has said that the entire matter now is "in the lap of the Gods." When he returns from Europe in June the fate of the U.S. wage scale will probably be known. If it is pressed downward, pessimists say that the nation will revert to the long gloom...
This was a lark! The Vagabond's heart leapt up. There before him stood the one man to dispel his gloom. The one man on the CRIMSON who could be rated as an intellectual equal, Hu Flung Huey. What occurred after the Sage had salaamed with his courtly grace, and the Vagabond had pulled him to him like a brother is none of the reader's business. What would you do upon meeting a long lost friend on a beautiful, balmy Friday afternoon with all Saturday and Sunday before you to rest. If this doesn't bring it home, look...
...Vagabond has always held the conventional beliefs about Russia that one culls from the Stygian gloom of Chekov or Tolstoi. Russian peasants for the Vagabond are a half mad lot. He sees them as a race of men who in one hand hold a knife over the head of a fair daughter, and in the other grasp a bottle of Vodka with which to wash away memory of the ugly deed. And the nobility, they carry on scandalously. Understand that this is only an impression gained of Russia which the Vagabond has created from his readings. He is a highly...
...Petit Cemetiere at Verdun, on the eve of Armistice Day, 1934, a crowd of tourists is gathered. As they drift away, one of their number remains. Darkness falls about him. In the increasing gloom a great voice is heard, promising that the 20-year-old prayers of the bereaved shall be answered, that the fallen shall be resurrected, permitted to return to their homes. When the soldiers have crawled out of their graves and the news of the miracle is broadcast over the earth, pan- demonium is loosed. Capitalists protest their presence on economic grounds, churchmen declare the resurrection unholy...
Price War. Gloom stalked through Leipzig as exhibitors at the Fair cut prices (and each others' throats) without stimulating any impressive volume of sales. Canny foreign buyers, interviewed by the Leipzig press, admitted grudgingly, "Prices are a little lower," held back their orders with evident intent to jump in when prices touched bottom...