Word: somberness
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Debt and Death. Amid Sir Edward Bridges' somber tables of vanishing export trade, dwindling foreign balances and pyramiding debts, were others even darker. In five years the island kingdom, with a population little more than one-third that of the U.S., had suffered as many casualties-from its armed forces alone-as had the U.S. in three years. Britain's toll: 176,081 killed, 38,275 missing, 193,788 wounded, 154,968 prisoners of war. In addition, the blitz and the buzz-bomb had taken a toll of 57,298 killed (including 7,250 children...
...over the nation, men & women read somber and heart-catching news in telegrams which began "deeply regret to inform you. . . ." For all the news was not in the newspapers, though some of it got into the news pictures (see cut). But that was not the whole story. Some of the story was in what U.S. mothers & fathers thought and sometimes wrote of their dead boys-such brave and sober thoughts as these...
...1920s, his somber little critical masterpieces-The Ordeal of Mark Twain, The Pilgrimage of Henry James, America's Coming of Age-won him a measure of fame, a solid standing, a powerful influence with his contemporaries. But they left him profoundly dissatisfied with his own work and increasingly unhappy about it. In the mid-'20s his health and nerves broke down, and he spent the next four years in hospitals, a victim of the melancholy that had gripped and paralyzed so many American writers before...
...like dirty water," and five principal characters: a gawky young Texas artist; an aristocratic student from Heidelberg with a freshly gashed dueling scar on his cheek; a wolfish but pathetic landlady; Polish pianist; a browbeaten, impecunious professor of mathematics. Out of these Author Porter has carefully built a somber, horrifying picture of a country on the verge of tragedy - a leaning tower ready to fall at the touch of a strong hand...
Quezon, who once planned to costume the attendants at his Philippine mansion like Buckingham Palace guards, went to his grave in somber splendor. All night, after its return to Washington in a dark baggage car, his body lay in state before the flower-banked altar of St. Matthew's Cathedral off fashionable Connecticut Avenue. White-gloved soldiers stood impassively with rifles grounded as crowds filed past. People of Filipino descent, great men of the U.S. and plain Americans came, paused, passed on, hour after hour. The next morning General Marshall, Admiral King, Interior Secretary Ickes, Senators and Supreme Court...