Word: glumly
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...private store of wisecracks, but not until this year did stockmarket gags glut the revues and become current at U. S. dinner tables. Upon a tense, avid public, the market break released a flood of cracks, good & bad, new & old, clean & smutty. Foreign visitors, expecting a glum, panic-stricken people, were amazed to find a new joke for each new catastrophe. Among cracks more or less good, new, clean...
Square and sober is Col. Carlos Ibanez, glum Dictator-President of Chile. Last week he plodded through the stalls of Santiago's national cattle show, gazed owl-solemn at placid Guernseys and mottled Ayrshires, then left, still dignified and stately...
...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...