Word: glumly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Wiley Lin Hurie was glum. His College of the Ozarks at Clarksville, Ark., needed-money, badly. The men's dormitory must be completed . . . the men were sleeping in wooden shacks they had built themelves . . . poor sons of poor fathers mountaineers, pure-bred Anglo-Saxon stock, much inbred, but unalloyed the girl students too, stout hearted. . . scrimp and save and slave for the $250 tuition and living expenses. . . cheapest charge for a bachelor's degree in Arkansas. The dormitory must be completed; the walls are up the boys laid the foundation and did all the common labor...
...Schoolteachers were glum, but some other persons cheered, when President Coolidge chose not to proclaim an American Education Week this year. In 1923, 1924, 1925 he proclaimed this "Week" but not last year, when U. S. Commissioner of Education John J. Tigert advised it was unnecessary. The President's secretary, Everett Sanders, explained this year to President Cornelia S. Adair of the National Education Association: "The President has expressed himself fully as to his convictions on the value of education and holds that to rephrase such sentiments tends rather to weaken them...
...electing a direct course instead of the great circle over New Foundland and Ireland. Storms battered them southward from the start. 500 miles out they were sighted by a passenger ship. They were seen no more that day, that night. Crowds waiting at Le Bourget field, Paris, turned away, glum, morose...
...bridge of the Cincinnati stood the heavy-jowled boss of Chicago. Glum, pouting, he clutched in his hand the manuscript of a wet and undelivered oration. In vain he sought the attention of crowds toiling on the levees. Had he ventured too near, shotguns would have banged and rifles crashed. The wash of his steamers menaced tottering dikes...
...Stevens called a taxi, rode to the Hotel Commodore, resumed tending to the business of the Wickwire-Spencer Corp. of Tulsa, of which he is general sales manager. Glum, Messrs. Maroney, McLaughlin, Santo rode a police-patrol; morose, they sat in cells...