Word: sullenness
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...There are thieves, beggars, constables and trollops willing to sing and speak with irony of their woes. But the time has been changed from Queen Anne's day to Queen Victoria's. And the spirit of cutpurse abandon has been superseded by an atmosphere which is often sullen, often merely dirtily proletarian, often obscure...
...ironic and individualist eye, the U. S. S. R. is the dreary nadir of materialism and mass-compulsion, an "unworld." Sample of cummingsesque: "unstructure with eagles. Despair. A on filthy floorless sitting perhaps drunken nonman. Confusion, timidly. ("See the" )whispers("nomads")Turkess . . . (stolid hugely faces poke from rags & bags: sullen squat drearily scratching lost ghosts. Men. Grunt nonmen. Their pyramid-of fear, surfaced with asquirm naked babies-does not move. None have any shoes but some are wearing instead baskets, i is smoking). Turk drops coinlesses, a machine spews quai-tickets. Now (baggageladen 2)3 comrades, through despair timidly through...
...banking facilities for outlying districts, a wave of bank closings smashed over the outlying districts of St. Louis. With a clean record of no closings last year and only two since the Depression St. Louis was rudely introduced to sights long since familiar in many parts of the land: sullen lines of depositors doggedly crowding into a big building for their money, angry, shouting depositors milling impotently before bronze doors...
...Russia's sown area into so-called collectives. For the past two years these would-be "grain factories" have been clamoring in vain for tractors and other equipment which the State could not supply fast enough, great though its progress has been. Result: a sullen, spontaneous, nation-wide "strike" by Soviet peasants who have refused (and in some instances have been unable) to grow grain in excess of their own needs which the State must have to feed Russia's cities...
...Protestant wing of the South; the rural radical wing of the Northwest; the free, harum-scarum wing of the Southwest. Governor Roosevelt, nominated by a heterogeneous combination of the last three, crushed the first wing, left it bleeding and broken. The Brown Derby is still licking its wounds in sullen silence. John Jacob Raskob, who kept the party alive through four lean years, has been unceremoniously exiled. Regardless of Mayor Walker's fate, Tammany can expect nothing from a President Roosevelt. Good Democrats like Bernard Mannes Baruch have been ignored. They feel that the presidential nominee has taken from them...