Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowds will roar as the great Harvard-Yale classic is fought out below them. The crowds will rush out to partake in mass celebration after the final whistle. But behind the scenes different and more somber contests will take place...
Divisional are finishing, and the general exodus from Cambridge has began, somber windows reflect the gloom that is felt in the hearts of those left behind. But lest the submerged Four-Fifths become moody contemplating their own sorry lot, it should never be said that May 14 did not bring the gladdest tidings of all the Spring season...
Still living in the small settlement of Forest City during George and Alfred Tucker's boyhood were some of its first settlers-dramatic living links to the earliest beginnings of a "beautiful, somber" country. With few playmates, George and Alfred depended mostly on each other and their imaginations, but in their eyes they lived in a world twice as exciting as any city kid's. In the best descriptions that have been written of the Northwest's giant forests and mountain scenery Author Binns makes convincing their swelling pride in the beauty of a land where high...
...well known that the New Deal stirs up class consciousness in the economic sense; President Roosevelt's own speeches are permeated with such appeals. However unfortunate appeals to economic class consciousness may be, an appeal to race consciousness has possibilities even more somber...
...remember: Felix the Cat used to have trouble entering fourth-story windows, only to sprout columns of huge question marks out of his head and use them as the necessary ladder. Insead of this we now have visual metaphors. The break of day, for example, is represented by the somber heavens' splitting along the lines between the stars and falling to the earth in chips, to have a bright sky in their place...