Word: glumness
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McGovern, abandoning hope, admitted: "We are Americans." The German gazed in glum silence. Said Campbell, nervously: "Let's be friendly," and handed the German a package of Camels. "Italienisch?" asked the Nazi, his curiosity mildly aroused. "No, American," McGovern replied, and the two Yanks turned as one man and walked, did not run, across the open field. The machine gunner scratched his head, did nothing. A few hundred yards away Campbell and McGovern met an American sentry who passed them on to safety...
...Navy and Maritime Commission men, British agents had attended her trials. But their reports were not made public. This was the main reason that the Sea Otter became an "affair." For more than a week, a lengthy press release on the subject had lain unreleased on the desk of glum Mr. Knox. Said Mr. Powell ruefully: "I thought this Sea Otter thing was too small and unimportant to bother about after we had made our decision." The decision: thumbs down. Some of the reasons, from official files...
Despite the defeat, Hal Ulen, as he sat talking to Freshman Coach Frank Vaughan after the meet need not have looked so glum, for his team has some truly great prospects. Once again Bill Drucker and Bus Curwen showed promise in their races, while in addition to this due, Ulen has a swimmer by the name of John Eusden whose performance Saturday. if it is any indication whatever, ought to put fear in the minds of every Ivy League swimming coach. For "Big John," after coming in fourth in the 50, made a comeback to finish second...
Despite the defeat, Hal Ulen, as he sat talking to Freshman Coach Frank Vaughan after the meet need not have looked so glum, for his team has some truly great prospects. Once again Bill Drucker and Bus Curwen showed promise in their races, while in addition to this due, Ulen has a swimmer by the name of John Eusden whose performance Saturday. if it is any indication whatever, ought to put fear in the minds of every Ivy League swimming coach. For "Big John," after coming in fourth in the 50, made a comeback to finish second...
...agents had reason to be nervous. For some two years the FBI had been working on this case; in three more days it would be ready to round up 33 individuals for its biggest spy trial so far. The tenant of that next office was glum-looking William Sebold, an FBI decoy (TIME, Sept. 22). Its walls were painted a bright white-to make the movies clearer. The camera focused on a calendar (June 25), on a clock on the desk (6:16) and on a tall, sardonic-looking, dark-haired man-Frederick Joubert Duquesne. Agent Johnson began to turn...