Word: glumly
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Flubbing an 8-ft. putt which means a new course record and a long head start toward some big prize money would make most golfers look as glum as a sturgeon. But when it happened to dapper Lloyd Mangrum at Wykagyl Golf Course in New Rochelle, N.Y. last week, he just grinned and acted like a sweepstakes winner with his money in the bank...
...stand outside Manhattan's famed old Trinity Church, Shoeshiner Sam Angarenti cast a glum eye on the Wall Street brokers, clerks and messengers who were hurrying to work in the drizzling rain. Yanking his fuzzy wool cap down tighter over his ears, Sam cursed the weather and bad business. "Nobody wants to get a shine any more," he growled, "but I guess they're making money over there...
...side room Churchill sat for a while listening to a portable radio and making notes with a ballpoint pen. He was glum until the Labor lead began to drop. Then he threw away a long-dead cigar, lighted a fresh one. "Now it's really getting exciting," said Churchill...
Well, that wasn't the way they greeted me when I arrived this time. Glum, disillusioned-- I sensed a note of cynicism in their replies to my first questions. What had been going on? What has happened? They answered confusedly, mumbling apologetically, then fell to quarreling among themselves. None really seemed to know for sure, but each felt that the other had had something to do with...
Britain's team of Cripps & Bevin, sick men from a sick nation, had looked glum as they left for the U.S. The advance party of British experts, already on the scene, was cautiously tiptoeing around any controversy that might re-ignite any U.S. tempers. For their part, the U.S. planners were taking no chances that they might be accused of telling Britain how to run its own affairs. The uproar of angry criticism in the U.S. and British press had all but died away...