Word: somberness
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Only a few people straggled into the galleries to see the wind-up of the second longest session in U.S. history. Only a few Congressmen were on the floors of House & Senate, and those few were somber and bitter. It was the day word came that Manila had fallen. Texas' Tom Connally uttered Congress' stammering epitaph: "We are a peaceful people. We were not expecting a war, we were not prepared for war. ..." The gavels banged. The 77th Congress of the U.S. ended its first session...
Into San Francisco Bay, through the mists of a grey Christmas morning, steamed a somber little convoy. Aboard were women and children bombed out of their homes in Honolulu, boys and men of the Navy wounded and burned in Pearl Harbor before they ever had a chance to fight back...
Without the aid of weird musical effects and somber, "arty" camera angles, "Ladies in Retirement" packs as much terror and suspense as a dozen of Hollywood's more pretentious spinetinglers. There are a couple of shots of mist-covered marshes to lend atmosphere at the beginning, and the musical background does furnish a few minor chords at the right moments; otherwise the story moves along--with its train of sinister over-tones--of its own weight. The effect lies in the story itself, and in some excellent direction, not in the well-aimed camera that has made so many films...
...long time the Trotskyite mice* dominated the cat-runs of Minnesota labor. Their tiny but concentrated strength lay in the Minneapolis teamsters' Local 544, whose chief mouse was lean, somber Vincent Dunne. Last summer, Dunne & union scuttled from A.F. of L., holed in with C.I.O. (TIME, July 7). Then their trouble began...
...ageless, grotesquely ugly face at the prow of a beautiful head. . . . Eyes pale with intensity seemed more like hieroglyphics of intelligence than eyes in a face and a somber Semitic nose carved with chastening Polish delicacy supported them. Pale firmly-full lips smiled with nervous sadness over strange teeth, and only the chin was allowed to rest a little from the forward-moving pace of his vitality. It afforded a slight pause in the breathless race to take in the rest. The next minute you realized that its backward movement was controlled with a fierceness that could defeat a Napoleon...