Word: somberness
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...China before Mei-ling hit Wellesley, and her only excitement about it was what she caught from her sister Ching-ling (who later married Dr. Sun). At Wellesley her favorite course was Arthurian Romance. She joined Tau Zeta Epsilon, spoke a languid Southern accent, and was sometimes vivacious, sometimes somber, always neat. Professor Annie K. Tuell, with whom she lived, says: "She kept up an awful thinking about everything." She used to speak eloquently of China's contributions to civilization, and regretted Western neglect of them. But she wrote a friend: "The only thing Oriental about...
Siege of Leningrad (Lenfilm News-reels-Artkino) pictures the cost of the war to Russian civilians. It is a somber film, calculated, to humble U.S. citizens...
...Somber Panorama. In the U-boat war, said Mr. Churchill, "we shall be definitely better off ... at the end of 1943." U.S. and Canadian shipbuilding exceeded losses by 1,250,000 tons† in the last half of 1942 ("It is not much but it is something"). In the past two months sinkings were the lowest they have been in over a year. Every U-boat afloat in the first year of war averaged 19 sinkings; in the second, twelve; in the third, only seven and a half. Casualties among U-boats, on the other hand, have steadily increased...
Nevertheless, said Mr. Churchill, the war at sea constitutes a "repulsive and somber panorama." Shipping losses must be reduced by the production of more escort vessels, even if production of merchantmen has to be decreased. Said the Prime Minister: "The more sinkings are reduced, the more vehement our Anglo-American war efforts can be. ... The greater the weight we can take off Russia and how quickly the war will end all depend upon the margin of new building and forging ahead over losses which are, although improving, still lamentable and . . . grievous...
...Midtown Galleries look like a black-belt village on Saturday afternoon. The canvases showed Negroes playing harmonicas, shooting craps, teaching Sunday school, and a vigorous study of two bucks locked together in a razor fight (one of Painter Binford's childhood memories). In most of these pictures, somber tones of the sooty bodies and faces stood out in contrast to the brilliant light of a lamp, the yellow interior of a church at night, the flame of a match. All reveal Artist Binford's understanding of Negroes...