Word: glum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stand outside Manhattan's famed old Trinity Church, Shoeshiner Sam Angarenti cast a glum eye on the Wall Street brokers, clerks and messengers who were hurrying to work in the drizzling rain. Yanking his fuzzy wool cap down tighter over his ears, Sam cursed the weather and bad business. "Nobody wants to get a shine any more," he growled, "but I guess they're making money over there...
...side room Churchill sat for a while listening to a portable radio and making notes with a ballpoint pen. He was glum until the Labor lead began to drop. Then he threw away a long-dead cigar, lighted a fresh one. "Now it's really getting exciting," said Churchill...
Well, that wasn't the way they greeted me when I arrived this time. Glum, disillusioned-- I sensed a note of cynicism in their replies to my first questions. What had been going on? What has happened? They answered confusedly, mumbling apologetically, then fell to quarreling among themselves. None really seemed to know for sure, but each felt that the other had had something to do with...