Word: sullenness
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...safety that he was wounded four times in the War. the Prince has a long record of gallantry. But to Viennese that record means nothing compared to the day, month ago, when unarmed and unguarded he walked into the Socialist lines smiling like a kindly grand father to tell sullen crowds: "I am Schonburg. . . . Now do drop this game like sensible people and go home...
...racking job, she was engaged but not happy. Oliver was a poverty-and ambition-ridden lawyer who haunted the Criminal Courts Building, grimly determined to get ahead without truckling to Tammany. Metropolitan coincidence brought them tragically together. Young Castie Petrella, one of Carolyn's more difficult pupils, a sullen boy who pined for a big, bad reputation, tried to impress his gang by stealing a car. He was caught almost immediately, sent to jail. Carolyn was the only person who understood why he had done it, but her vague inquiries were powerless to help him, until she discovered amiable...
...There, last week, among his jazz records, his ping-pong tables, his radio and his detective stories, it found and smote that gloomy youth, Bao Dai, hereditary Emperor of Annam, Son of Heaven, Absolute Master and Father and Mother of his People-and French puppet. Too bored to look sullen. Bao Dai spent his life from 9 to 19 in Europe, where he had let himself be crammed with a good French education and good French politics. When he was 19 he was shipped back to Annam and Annam's real boss. French Governor General Pierre Pasquier, ushered...
Last week in a Springfield schoolroom officers found the boy. His name was Cecil Kiper and he was ten years old. Sullen with fright, he denied knowing anything about the fire until taken before Governor Horner, who used to be a juvenile court judge. There Cecil Kiper told how he had filled a bag with shavings, weighted it with solder, lighted it, thrown it on the armory stage...
...bushmaster hates captivity. Surrounded by tropical foliage and plenty of food, it goes on a sullen hunger strike. Attempts at forced feeding numb it with rage, paralyze its digestion. It starves to death in four or five months. Snakeman March, now possessor of the only known bushmaster in captivity, may have better luck since he will keep his catch in its native habitat...