Word: glumly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back home in Evanston, Ill. she is remembered as plain Gertrude McBrady, a glum girl in blonde braids. But in Paris' plush Maeght Gallery last week, she was redheaded, black-robed Mademoiselle O'Brady, the brilliant American artist...
...press conferences, he always sat behind President Roosevelt's big desk, a small, stooped man with bright, hooded eyes in a seamed face. Behind the hornrimmed glasses he looked bored and glum. He seldom said a word. He didn't have to. As the Democrats' ghostwriter and hatchet man, Charley Michelson got the party's biggest guns...
Proud, tubby little Andy Varipapa, at 53 the oldest man in the tournament, liked to puff out his gorilla chest and announce that he is the world's greatest bowler (TIME, May 5). A good many of the experts disagreed. They would rather bet their money on glum, gum-chewing Joe Wilman, 41, who was bowling man of the year in 1946 and went about his trade in very businesslike fashion. In Chicago's drafty Madison Street Armory last week, Andy and Joe staged a seesaw duel that made the bowling experts forget anything they had seen before...
...formula for a poison gas. In fact, all your old friends are here: the fat German with a sear, the brave little Oxonian who is tortured while keeping his chin up, the big sex-appeal Gypsy boy with a tern shirt and 33 children, the usual retinue of glum Nazi henchmen, and, last, but not least, the genial white horse that wiggles its ears. You can't forget those gypsy kisses that's what the ads say. O.A.F...
...Blame. Their leaders were not so buoyant. Dominican General Juan Rodriguez García, who had put $400,000 of his own money in the venture, walked bent and glum between his guards. Hard-boiled Rolando Masferrer, one of his Cuban lieutenants, who had not wanted to turn back even under Cuban Navy guns, was asked to say a few words for the radio. He grabbed the mike, cursed Cuban Army Chief Genovevo Pérez Dámera as a traitor. When told to mind his words, he slugged the announcer with the mike. Angel Morales, chief...