Word: glumly
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What makes an editorial job on the weekly so desperate, said Maloney, is "the glum fact of the New Yorker's perfection; because perfection, in the mind of Harold Ross, is not a goal or an ideal, but something that belongs to him, like his watch or his hat." In 22 years, this has enormously complicated the once casual synthesis of the magazine: "Ross is no longer content with a profile; he requests also a family history, bank reference, social security number, urinalysis, catalogue of household possessions, names of all living relatives, business connections, political affiliations, as well...
...Flames, Testamark and Pollard, had once played alongside a glum guitarist who stared lifelessly into the innards of his guitar. A woman in the audience asked him, "What you got in there-dirty pictures?" After that, the Flames started looking for a new third. Two years ago, they found a bearded West Indian named Tiger Haynes ("he's a frantic guy"), and stole him from a trio called Plink, Plank and Plunk...
Hoboken didn't like McFeely. He was tough, glum, nickel-pinching, semi-illiterate and vindictive. When he left the seat of a dump cart for politics, he cultivated Democratic Boss Paddy Griffin so obsequiously that he was nicknamed "Me Too Barney." But when Paddy got sick in 1925, McFeely had what he needed to grab Paddy's power: he controlled the police and fire departments and thus almost all Democratic campaign funds...
...Boulder City, nine miles west of the dam, was glum. Merchants, contemplating a quarter of a million dollars' worth of ash trays, sofa pillows and other knicknacks emblazoned "Souvenir of Boulder Dam," tried to decide what to do. They could get rid of them at a loss. But what if the next Congress were Democratic...
Stubborn, glum Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, the Polish Peasant Party's leader, tried, amidst jeers, to block the steamroller. Although he and 25 members of his party, now the sole opposition in Parliament, dropped blank votes in the basket, the result was foregone. Next day Bierut named husky, hard-faced, 35-year-old Josef Cyrankiewicz, an able and energetic left-wing Socialist, as Premier. Egg-bald Cyrankiewicz is a onetime artillery officer who was liberated by U.S. troops from the infamous German prison camp at Mauthausen. He has come up fast. Right-wing Socialists accuse him of double-crossing them...