Word: glum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agents had reason to be nervous. For some two years the FBI had been working on this case; in three more days it would be ready to round up 33 individuals for its biggest spy trial so far. The tenant of that next office was glum-looking William Sebold, an FBI decoy (TIME, Sept. 22). Its walls were painted a bright white-to make the movies clearer. The camera focused on a calendar (June 25), on a clock on the desk (6:16) and on a tall, sardonic-looking, dark-haired man-Frederick Joubert Duquesne. Agent Johnson began to turn...
Last week watchers at the trial were mightily impressed at FBI efficiency. But watching glum William Sebold as he told his story, many a spectator was more impressed at the craziness and waste of the Nazi world his story pictured, a world so madly different from the desires of an ordinary German who had merely wanted to be an engineer in his own home town...
Meanwhile, in Manhattan, glum Germans and sad-eyed Italians were going aboard the West Point. From Ellis Island, where he was taken two months ago for violating U.S. immigration laws, onetime German Minister to Austria Dr. Kurt Rieth was set free. Freed also were Dr. Manfred Zapp and Günther Tonn, U.S. managers of the Nazi Transocean News Service (now closed), who had failed to register with the State Department as foreign agents. The newsmen were to be exchanged for two U.S. newsmen, Jay Allen of North American Newspaper Alliance, Richard Hottelet of United Press, "detained" by the Nazis...
With the Varsity crew sporting more than enough opponents' shirts for a change every day in the week, Harvey Love's Freshman boat has reason to be glum, for it has yet to win a race. Three times it has lost to M. I. T., and in the last race it fell before Syracuse...
...difference now that Stalin is worshiped as a god.* Joseph Stalin must therefore have felt justified last week in giving himself the dual job that only sainted Nikolai Lenin has held. He suddenly promoted himself to the Premiership, the Presidency of the Council of Commissars, leaving the former Premier, glum, encyclopedic Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, with the titles of Vice Premier and Foreign Minister...