Word: somberness
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Earlier in.the day he had cast his vote at St. Stephen's parish hall, South Kensington, for the Conservative candidate Sir Patrick Spens. Churchill spent election night at home, appeared the next day at his own constituency, Woodford, burdened with a gold-headed cane and a somber mood. Mrs. Churchill was cheerful. She introduced the Labor candidate, young Seymour Hills, to Churchill. Hills grinned a buck-toothed grin and flushed. Said Churchill: "So you're the Labor candidate, are you?" and walked away...
...rope served a more somber purpose. By nightfall it had been expertly cut and knotted into two nooses that swayed from the main beam of a double gallows in Fort Saskatchewan Jail, 20 miles away. Shortly after midnight, while a small group of witnesses looked on, the nooses were slipped over the black-hooded heads of two convicted murderers. The dark-suited little man, known professionally as Mr. Ellis, checked to make sure that the slipknots fitted snugly behind each man's left ear. Then he sprang the trap door and the prisoners plunged downward...
...from the old Russia. His contingent of astrakhan-capped soldiers and gaily clad peasant followers carried him along on a swelling surge of music flavored by the Russian folk songs which Nationalist Mussorgsky loved so dearly. Mussorgsky mined the rich vein of Russian liturgical themes to back up the somber, icon-bearing Old Believers. Led by the young zealot Marfa (Rise Stevens) and the fervent patriarch Dossife (Jerome Hines), they sang the opera's most exciting music...
Collectors, critics and fellow artists crowded Manhattan's Whitney Museum one night last week to pay homage to a somber, solitary painter who stands among the nation's best. It was the opening of Edward Hopper's first full-scale retrospective show in 17 years. On the walls were 171 drawings, etchings, drypoints, watercolors and oils-enough to dizzy gallerygoers on a first visit and delight them on a second or third...
...Moody Jr. of Galveston. Moody is a wispy, somber oldster who in his 80s dresses always in black, treats men in their 60s as youngsters. He controls banks, newspapers, a large insurance company, vast ranching interests and oil holdings. He has a dead eye for duck shooting, and runs Galveston...