Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dyer-Bennett sang some traditional ballads, "Green sleeves," "Barbara Allen" and "Blow the Candles Out." The last had a tinge of bawdiness since it was written before "the moral gloom of our own period," when a little spice was taken for granted. Although he hinted that a little spice never hurts, Dyer-Bennett declined to sing anything bawdier...
Hollywood Star Playhouse (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). A new drama series. James Stewart in Nor Gloom of Night...
Main Line is his first big postgraduate effort. It is a pretty good one, well organized, carefully if stiffly written, and sincere in tone. It manages with very few means to convey the musty gloom of the old Main Line houses, and to suggest that the gloom may be the emanation of the people in them, that the mustiness may be the reek of decaying personalities...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps, whose official utterances are usually the occasion for deep parliamentary gloom, last week brought a note of cheer to the House of Commons. During the first three months of 1950, Cripps reported, Britain and the rest of the sterling area had chalked up a dollar surplus of $40 million more than ECAid; it was the first time since war's end that the sterling area had been out of the red, and few M.P.s could repress their, cheers...
...patients in Belle-Vista Sanatorium, on the northwestern edge of Philadelphia, went to bed one night last week in their usual atmosphere of medieval gloom. For the most violent, bed was a hollowed-out slab of concrete and a pallet in a small barricaded ward or a private cubicle. Some were shackled to the concrete with straps and locks. The moderately violent slept on cots and were restrained with leather straps. The merely senile and harmlessly demented slept unfettered...