Word: sullenness
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...despair of his ever marrying. Once he was exposed to a young, pretty Hungarian Countess. The courtiers left the two pointedly alone in the family's Belgian garden. Shyly and silently Otto walked. Finally he looked at the Countess with his big, soulful brown eyes, relaxed his sullen Habsburg mouth into a smile, asked: "Have you ever considered how industrious ants are?" Industrious but not quite as systematic as an ant, Otto has worked out a plan of restoration. The present war, he says, will end with revolution in Austria, which will spread to Bohemia-Moravia, Slovakia, Poland...
Today the picture is vastly altered. U.S. ships cannot enter the war zone, so that no longer do our diplomats have to butt their heads against an unyielding British blockade, nor fear torpedo attacks by a sullen Germany. Of course this meant giving up profitable trade, and here lies the danger, for powerful shipping interests may try to circumvent the law, and a doubtfully neutral Administration can help them do it. Our other new neutrality tool is the Johnson Act, which forbids loans to nations that have defaulted in former war loans, meaning England and France. This is a potent...
...coal-black, 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, who lives with his pious mother, a mild sister and brother in a one-bedroom tenement apartment on Chicago's South Side. In a flawlessly keyed first scene Bigger smashes a rat with a skillet, frightening his sister into a faint. Sullen and sassy through breakfast, he begs the last quarter in the house, joins his poolroom pals to plan a delicatessen stickup. Instead, getting cold feet, he picks a fight with them. Bigger and his pals play a game of mimic called "white," speculate on whites' lives, particularly as portrayed...
When he is pressed, when the time is ripe, Franklin Roosevelt can be blunt to the point of brutality. Faced by these cocky, sullen kids, he let himself go, gave the kids (and their adopted mother, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt) a first-class spanking...
Most psychiatrists' reports are woven around the tortured braggings of a paranoiac, the sullen stupors of a schizophrenic. Few ever bother with such broader problems as the relation of insanity to unemployment, to age, to sex, to alcohol. And no one has seriously answered the crucial questions: Is insanity in the U. S. increasing...