Word: glumly
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...glum picture is somewhat brightened, however, with the return of Johnny Lee for Saturday's meet with Springfield. Pickett plans to use the National A.A.U. champ at 123, to move sophomore Eddie Bursk into Adams' position, and to put Frank Dewar...
...befriending a tramp who has stolen his valise, Toto is invited to take shelter on a dreary wasteland at the city's fringe, where glum derelicts elbow one another to get into each stray shaft of sunlight that breaks through the winter clouds. By spring, Toto is busily turning the hobo jungle into a shantytown haven for Milan's poor, and imbuing them with good will. Among the newcomers is a badgered, not-quite-pretty girl (Brunella Bovo), with whom he strikes up a charmingly innocent courtship...
Before the Hangover. A quickie election, while the Iranian masses are still drunk on the heady wine of nationalism, and before the economic hangover hits them, is almost sure to return Mossadegh to power. The British, who had confidently predicted his downfall, looked glum: once again they had misread the Iranians and their wily old leader...
...plays the succulent part of Scrooge with delightful gusto, whether barking at charity solicitors, cringing before ghosts, demoniacally fleecing a business associate or lavishing favors on a startled Cratchit. Sim gets his best support from Kathleen Harrison, who expands the Dickens vignette of Scrooge's glum charwoman into a life-size comic portrait. Sample: the hilariously ghoulish scene that shows her cheerfully plying the rag & bones man with Scrooge's deathbed effects...
...strikers were broke and glum and searching for a face-saving way to get back on the job. While more pay and other contract improvements would bring them back to work now, there will be no substantial peace on the waterfront until the rackets and racketeers are cleaned...