Word: glumness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wore on, the beleaguered paratroops, under merciless enemy pressure, began to steal glum looks at their watches. At 12:14 a weary officer muttered: "They'll never make it now." At that moment, through the crash and rattle of gunfire and mortar shells, came a distant skirling of bagpipes, the Commandos' signal. A paratroop bugler answered with "Defaulters,"* indicating that the road immediately ahead had Germans on it, and that the first Commando-men should go around them...
Members cried: "Nonsense. . . . The Prime Minister makes liars of the members. ..." In a medley of cheers from the faithful, glum glances from the critics, Winston Churchill stomped...
Last week, by Nichols' order, wreckers were tearing down the building. Cost: $4,500. When the last brick is carted away, he will have black dirt spread over the site, and grass sown. Said he, glum for the nonce: "The lot will be just sitting there to give back to the Indians...
...three singing Gumm sisters arrived from their home at the edge of the Mojave Desert to play a week of vaudeville at Chicago's Oriental Theater. Their blood froze when they read the marquee legend: THIS WEEK GEORGE JESSEL and THE GLUM SISTERS...
...Trade? The London Times took a glum view of U.S. trade ambitions, concluding that the U.S. was preparing to assume the "role of economic leadership played by Great Britain in the 19th Century." But, complained the Times, the U.S. is not planning to import as well as export, and that way lies disaster for the U.S. and the world...