Word: glooming
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...early last week and headed southwest into a grey squall. At their head was the new cruiser Chester flying the three-starred flag of Vice Admiral George Ralph Marvell. Aboard the 27 ships of the Navy's scouting force were 5,000 officers and men. Also aboard was gloom, for behind them in Newport were their wives and many a sweetheart. Forty miles to Long Island's tip slowly steamed the fleet, to drop anchor in Fort Pond Bay, sheltered by the curve of Montauk Point, where dimly through fog and rain could be seen the bulk...
...London last week viewed the international situation with misgiving, 'unmitigated gloom' would be the only phrase to characterize this week's mood. Only on one or two occasions since the war has the British capital indulged so openly in alarmist talk...
...Thursday afternoon the city of London gave itself up to a perfect orgy of gloom, and one friendly financier warned his newspaper friends that they had better draw what cash they were likely to need for some time, as the Bank of England was going to close its doors on Monday! This was merely a prize specimen of the crop of rumors...
Manhattan's gloom was discounted by Willis H. Booth, vice president of Guaranty Trust...
Totals 636 The Conference met in a cloud of gloom. Sessions were "secret," punctuated by leaks. Quarreling began on the first day and continued until the last. Nothing was accomplished except to make "personal contacts" and set up a permanent statistical bureau to gather data on wheat, already plentiful. The Conference disbanded, died an utter failure...