Word: sullenness
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...manner of odors. Most have no shoes, but they can march 40 miles a day when pressed. They exist on the equivalent of 65 U.S. cents a month, nearly half of which they have to pay for mess expenses. Furthermore, they endure endless defeat and disappointment without losing their sullen determination...
With his fractured ankle now well on the mend, he stumped about, a dour Scottish captain dogging his trail. But London reports had him mum and sullen, complaining at being given ordinary food, demanding "extras" for which he said he had money to pay, piqued because no Cabinet ministers had yet visited...
...dirty looks and flying words. Most violent word hurler was pontifical John P. Frey, president of the A.F. of L. metal-trades department, who stormed: "If necessary I'll lead [nonstriking craftsmen] through the picket line myself to bust this strike." Back of the San Francisco machinists' sullen defiance was a tradition of autonomy, the conviction that they had the right to act without interference from the parent body. Mr. Frey's threatening attitude just made matters worse...
...London last week juvenile courts were sitting double their pre-war hours to hear the stories sullen juniors told them. One curious fact they had unearthed: poverty does not, as in peacetime, lead to crime. On the charge sheet 20 boys were listed in a day, eight of them only 16 years old. All were earning salaries big enough to support a respectable family before the war. Scores of onetime errand boys were doing demolition work at ?4/5 ($17) a week. They gave their mothers $6, squandered the rest on liquor, gambling, girls...
...hundred and twenty thousand human beings and one hundred thousand animals squirmed and bobbed." In Greenville, the mayor appointed Percy chairman of the flood-relief committee and the local Red Cross. When the Negro Chicago Defender stirred up the Negroes against him, Percy went alone into their jampacked, sullen meeting, talked the mutineers back to their senses...