Word: glumness
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...destroying fact ... no funds . . association has shrunk. . . ." Such phrases came, last week, from the lips of Gutzon Borglum, famed sculptor. He, glum, was deploring the withdrawal of public support from the great memorial to the Confederacy which, under his direction, has been rising on the face of Stone Mountain, Ga. (TIME, Aug. 13, 1923; May 26, 1924). Those two proud gentlemen, Generals Lee and Jackson, stand raised among their armies on the mountain's craggy front, half- formed. In the U. S. mint, 5,000,000 half-dollar coins, with Lee and Jackson riding their horses across one side...
...last few years have been lean ones for many of Boston's leading interests and industries. The Massachusetts cotton-spinning trade is glum, mills are closing down. The leather business has been dull for some time, shoemaking has begun to re-establish itself further west. The "coppers," Boston's favorite speculations, have also paid lean dividends, or none...
Eddie Foy, comedian, was there with his new wife. Harry Wills sat by, in fawn suitings, looking glum. Jack Johnson and Kid Norfolk chatted with Battling Siki, who grinned the while, not understanding much English...
...Fred's been glum since he was arrested for auto-suggestion...
...coping above to save, the paper from rain and before it gather the motley crew of Poilus. Nowadays with grin and jest--as if the war had just begun and were going well. But a short time ago it hurt to see the little dogged, glum crews that read the news of back, back-fighting, fighting--losing ground--French ground. Then the war seemed a very ancient interminable thing--but now! Ah, it is young with hope and confidence and faith. Hail, the French spirit that can live on faith alone for four long, losing years--to celebrate so gaily...