Word: sullenness
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...cage sat the Rev. Vincenzo Baiamonte. Archpriest of Burgio, and several former Mayors of local towns. Indeed last week's batch of alleged desperadoes were as different as possible from the 153 dirty, sullen men and savage, leering hags who sat in similar cages during the first mass Mafiosi trial at Termini Imerese (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927). Last week the well and in many cases elegantly dressed prisoners listened with composure while the Crown charged them with 43 murders, 26 attempted assassinations, blackmailings & robberies innumerable and, collectively, with "banding and conspiring together for criminal purposes...
...well able to handle his work. He has written numerous articles on the Negro in business. He also wrote "Learning How to be Black" for the American Mercury. Although in this essay he said, "At fifteen, I was fully conscious of the racial difference, and while I was sullen and resentful in my soul, I was beaten and knew it," his interest and perseverance in his work show no passive defeatism. When not at work, he likes dancing, theatres. Now in Manhattan, he acclaims The Green Pastures, recalls King Dodo, seen 35 years...
...fire was kindled mysteriously in the Catholic chapel, a third flashed up in the woolen mills. Into the prison yard poured thousands of screaming, shouting, swearing prisoners, cowed by the flames, tempted to dash for freedom. Troops, state and federal, augmented the prison guard, pricked the crazy mob into sullen obedience with bayonets. Fire chiefs threatened to let the whole penitentiary burn down unless the warden would guarantee to protect their men. Thousands of Columbus citizens milled around on the fringe of the death-laden spectacle...
...knew. Government officials made guesses on unemployment, colored more by partisan politics than by positive facts. Senators flayed the Department of Labor for its paltry system of gathering labor statistics. The City of Milwaukee opened soup kitchens. Bread lines stretched out in Brooklyn. Manhattan's Bowery swarmed with sullen idle men. Communists staged demonstrations throughout the U.S. as well as abroad (see p. 21). Though these things combined to make the Hoover Administration acutely unemployment-conscious, none of them answered the question: how many jobless...
...thumbed dead instruments in a vain attempt to get material over the wet wire in time for the football extra or evening edition will bear grateful testimony to the wisdom of the Athletic Association. And those who have hurriedly pushed the last few sentences along a hesitating wire amid sullen curses addressed to weather conditions and press boxes alike, will be the first to realize the paper value and so the money value of conditions conducive to speed and comfort in play by play reporting...