Word: somberness
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...Cresset Presses must also be mentioned. Cresset has just issued an excellent Pilgrim's Progress, although many will not like it. The book is beautiful, nevertheless,--possibly too traditionally conventional,--but in it the spirit of Bunyan comes back to us again, with his mourning garments and his somber musings embodied in the black binding, the blacker wood-cuts, and the heavy solid page...
Despite the "perfect calm" prevailing in Rumania, Premier Vintila Bratiano found it necessary to hold one more conference with party leaders on the very train which carried his brother's coffin out to the Bratiano estate at Florica for burial. Arrived there, the harassed politicians assumed somber mourning faces, then followed the coffin and the royal family through immense crowds of somberly clad peasants, some of whom sprinkled holy water on the slowly passing bier...
...sees into the future when his sons and his sons' sons will hear that joke; he looks back into the past and sees all his ancestors laughing at that joke. And he doubles up with the pain of the cumulative sorrow. "Why must", the words ring in the somber chambers of his brain, "why must a professor tell the same story for thirty years, a hundred years?" Titters in oblivion! And four out of five...
Everyday there appear on the newsstands new, gay-colored magazines with pictures of pretty young ladies gracing their covers, Daily there arrive also fresh stocks of somber, dignified-looking periodicals with a position and wild-eyed, excited magazines with a Cause...
...somber for all members of the Business School will be held in the Living Room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock tonight. The meeting is under the auspices of the Business School Club...