Word: glumly
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...glum contrast was the reaction of New York's Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine: "The papers were interesting, but to a practical policeman they didn't mean much...
Faces were glum at the Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment last week. Ruefully, prominent propagandists admitted that autocratic President Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank had just put a severe crimp in the world-wide activities of their club-footed idol, Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, gnomish Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment...
...Sanger. slim and tense, recited her old piece to the glum, fidgeting Committeemen: "The forgotten woman can have her child's teeth and adenoids cared for at clinics. She can send her children to get free luncheons. She can do nothing for her own most pressing problem...
With the French Government facing a staggering budgetary deficit of some six billion francs ($235,000,000 gold, $360,000,000 Roosevelt), knife-faced Finance Minister Georges Bonnet was as glum last week as Louis XV when that profligate and nearly bankrupt King was visited by the sly Venetian Adventurer Giovanni Casanova de Seingalt...
...morning before he lumber code was finished General Johnson got the steel men into a room, kept them there for twelve hours with only a brief intermission for dinner-virtually whipped them into agreement. They came out late at night, glum, shaking their heads grievously. He had beaten down their demand for continuance of open shop.* The code provided a maximum 40-hr. week (extensible to 48 hr. at seasonal peaks); a minimum 40? an hour wage; an eight-hour day effective after Nov. 1 if the industry is operating at 60% or more of capacity; three representatives...