Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Department sat dry, rigid Sumner Welles, Under Secretary, unbending, unhurried, whose iron purpose is always swathed in the precise delicacies of diplomatic chitchat, perfectly at home in the chill gloom of the State Department, its black waxed furniture, heavy blue drapes...
Peace. Strong on defense, Britain and France seemed weak on surprise. Neither gaunt Mr. Neville Chamberlain, taking his after-breakfast stroll as usual, nor serious M. Daladier, had the talent, training, or freakish love of shock to plan a move of the sort that Hitler had made. As profound gloom settled over the capitals of Europe-in Moscow, belatedly, as well as in Berlin-some great stroke of unprecedented originality, some inspired action unlike any that diplomatic history had known, seemed called for to answer Hitler's. But the imaginations of peace were not productive. Memories of Munich, when...
Joseph Patrick Kennedy, 50, father of nine and normally cheerful, flew from Cannes to London one day last week brimming over with gloom which had been gathering inside him for more than a year. As the official eyes, ears, head and heart of the U. S. in Great Britain, it seemed that he was at last about to behold that unspeakable spectacle which he had dreaded: totalitarian war in which women & children, the aged and the ill, civilians as well as military, orders sacred and orders profane, would all be devastated regardless. Ambassador Joe Kennedy returned to a Britain preparing...
Died. T. E. Powers, 69, oldtime cartoonist ("Joy" & "Gloom"); in Long Island...
...Negro artists live in virtual poverty? Why--why --why--over and over again the words to the song din that question into the cars of those who have listened to it--why a people must be submitted to the physical and moral subjugation that makes its songs temples of gloom and misery is the query of this freezing chant...