Word: glooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Africa today the businessman's gloom is fading. Last week the big British weaving firm of Cyril Lord Ltd., which produces fine poplin for Brooks Brothers and Sulka, announced that it was closing two of its British mills and planned to replace them with a new, $2,000,000 plant in South Africa. New British investment in South Africa has jumped from a scant $11 million in 1961 to an estimated $28 million this year. Britain now has $2.5 billion invested in South Africa (v. $2.2 billion in the U.S.). In addition, increasing amounts of U.S., French...
...thing, resort fashions, though basically no different in purpose or function from regular old summer clothes, have always brought out the exotic impulse in even the most conservative housewife. Raspberry silk, in the dank gloom of December, is somehow a good deal more raspberry and more silky than when seen in the golden context of a June day. But even with the inherent glamour that comes with trekking out in storm boots to buy clothes fit for sea and shore, this year's selection has an added bit of zing...
...only by a flicker-and even then the results might be changed by recounts. In most instances, an argument could be made that local situations outweighed national or even regional trends. But the fact remained that New England's voting was a cause for Democratic rejoicing and G.O.P. gloom...
...time, if ever there was one, for the tic. It was time for all the attractively nervous and neurotic gestures, twitches and gloom, that have long characterized the performances of Judy Garland. She came on stage last week in Chicago's great Arie Crown Theater and, after telling the 5,000 people there that she was so happy she just wanted to sing, started out with Hello Bluebird. Bluebird got stuck in her throat. She hacked and coughed and failed to clear it. "The bluebird is in a little trouble," she said cheerfully...
...knew that his abdomen was in good hands. I mean, this guy has a Method stomach. All he has to do is stand up and you know that he's playing to perfection a crabby, self-dramatizing, infinitely egotistical (and very funny) petty tyrant. His stomach has all the gloom of W. C. Fields, all the confidence of Magoo...