Word: glumness
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...Song of Songs (Paramount), impaired somewhat by the glum reverence with which the cinema customarily treats the classics, is a pictorially beautiful adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's famed novel. It shows Marlene Dietrich, sinning as usual, but not without good reason. She is Lily Czepanek, a Berlin model who suffers successively from associations with a drunken, tyrannical aunt, a faithless lover, a brutish husband and a riding master...
Speaker Rainey & friends marched out of the White House looking glum and worried. The President had not succeeded in definitely killing the pension boost but he had made it seem much less attractive politically to the House leaders...
...Blum served notice that he would merely "tolerate" the new Radical Socialist Government,* might wreck it any day as he wrecked its predecessors. Perfunctorily the Socialists joined in giving the Daladier Cabinet a vote of confidence (370 to 200) last week. "But we did so," said tall, stringy-haired, glum M. Blum, "without any particular enthusiasm...
...Office. The Civil War was brewing. The U. S. Sanitary Commission, ancestor of the Red Cross, held fairs all over the country to raise money. For the Chicago Sanitary Fair Sculptor Rogers donated his first group, "Checkers," two figures bending over a draughts board, one laughing, one glum. It was the hit of the fair. In New York he showed his next piece, an Abolitionist number entitled "The Slave Auction." No dealer would handle it because of the amount of Southern sentiment in the city, so Yankee Rogers found a colored boy with a wagon and hawked copies...
...table in a Manhattan publisher's office one day last week, registering varying degrees of pleasure. Large, dapper Publisher Richard Roy Smith beamed. Wide-eyed Critic George Jean Nathan puffed contentedly on a cigar. Ernest Boyd lolled crosslegged, grinning through his messianic beard. Hulking Theodore Dreiser looked less glum than usual. All had just learned that the first monthly issue of The American Spectator ("A Literary Newspaper") published by Mr. Smith and edited by the three writers (plus James Branch Cabell and Eugene O'Neill) had sold out its entire edition of 12,000 copies...