Word: glumly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hangar), Groutville, South Africa, and St. Hubert, Canada. As both ships were nearing completion this summer, dire were the prophecies that they were not airworthy, that they would crack up. So impoverished Englishmen, troubled by the spending of $10,000,000 on the ships and their accessories, were glum last week when the R-101 sailed from her Cardington hangar. Nor were they as joyous, as she sailed over London, as the Germans have been over the accomplishments of their Graf Zeppelin...
...fifty percent of the work in an ordinary performance. A good, hearty, infectious laugh out front will put a whole new aspect into the action on the stage. When you know that you have the audience with you the play fairly rolls along. But if the house is feeling glum, then you have to double your efforts and cheer them up--put them in the spirit of the thing. There can be no such close relationship between audience and actor in the talking pictures, and with that relationship most of the fascination of the stage is tied...
...were early birds, first of a host of evacuations which will keep moving all through the early winter. Cheerfully their bands blared "Tipperary," "John Brown's Body," and even "I Can't Give You Anything But Love?Baby!" But the Rhineland villagers and the citizens of Wiesbaden stood lowering, glum. Only at Koenigstein did the local mayor pay a grudging honest tribute...
...Capitol by a dictatorial movietone cameraman. He was instructed to make a speech on the Hawley-Smoot (tariff) bill. For an audience the cineman commandeered Senator William Edgar Borah, hastening by to the barber shop for a much-needed haircut. Senator Smoot extolled his bill. Senator Borah looked glum. When the speech ceased Senator Borah turned, walked away. Cried the cineman, no student of tariff politics...
Graf Zeppelin, Again. The gorilla and the chimpanzee were glum, the 600 canaries fidgety, the 19 passengers restless, the imprisoned stowaway morose?aboard the Graf Zeppelin as she rushed across the Atlantic last week on the second transoceanic commercial air voyage. She reached Lakehurst, N. J., from Friedrichshafen, at the German-Swiss border in 95 hrs., 23 mins. without trouble, having averaged 60 miles an hour during most of the trip,?about twice as fast as the S. S. Bremen. Passengers, after an agreeably brief customs and immigration inspection, gloated over the relative uniqueness of their air travel...