Word: sullenness
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...usual sullen calm lay last week over the Biblical lands of Gilead, Moab and Ammon where King David once fought Absalom and where the British Crown now rules the mandated territory of Transjordan. Suddenly across the vineyards, the wheatfields and the deserts crackled news that the British Government of Palestine had lent $500,000 to Transjordan. To horse and to camel leaped the Arab sheiks, whipping their beasts hell-bent for Amman, the capital. Practically every tribal sheik in the country was in the mob that stormed the house of Premier Sheik Abdallah Sarraj, demanding...
...Sullen employes became her loyal partners. Up went efficiency and profits but down on her came the wrath of the industry. Led by the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., her competitors started a cutthroat price war. With a high wage scale, Operator Roche was not prepared to fight. Her friends fought for her. Employes volunteered to lend half their pay for three months. Colorado unionists launched a State-wide sales campaign for her coal. Her opponents crawled from the field...
...department store. Encased from head to foot in chromium-plated steel armor, Alpha sat on a specially constructed dais with its cumbrous feet securely bolted to the floor, stared impassively over the knot of newshawks and store officials waiting for the first demonstration. The creature had a great sullen slit of a mouth, vast protuberant eyes, shaggy curls of rolled metal. In one mailed fist Alpha clutched a revolver...
Divorced. Catherine Kresge, Baroness Wijk; from Baron Carl Carlson Wijk; in Detroit. Charges: Baron Wijk was "cold, sullen, morose, habitually indulged in gross and objectionable vulgarity...
...youngest and always the most grown-up of the lot, is his parents' standby. When he brings a queer, sullen Russian girl home, announces that she is his wife, the folks never get over it. But Bun knows what he is doing, even though his marriage may lead him into strange and dangerous ways. With his defection the folks realize they are now the old folks. Fred retires from the bank, and he and Annie drive out to California for a long visit. What they see there confuses and repels them; they are glad to get home again, even...