Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London last week juvenile courts were sitting double their pre-war hours to hear the stories sullen juniors told them. One curious fact they had unearthed: poverty does not, as in peacetime, lead to crime. On the charge sheet 20 boys were listed in a day, eight of them only 16 years old. All were earning salaries big enough to support a respectable family before the war. Scores of onetime errand boys were doing demolition work at ?4/5 ($17) a week. They gave their mothers $6, squandered the rest on liquor, gambling, girls...
...hundred and twenty thousand human beings and one hundred thousand animals squirmed and bobbed." In Greenville, the mayor appointed Percy chairman of the flood-relief committee and the local Red Cross. When the Negro Chicago Defender stirred up the Negroes against him, Percy went alone into their jampacked, sullen meeting, talked the mutineers back to their senses...
...dissatisfaction with the British. Plenty of backveld farmers and Kimberley merchants are unreconstructed. Their long memories reach back to the Great Trek of 1835-38 when stubborn Dutch farmers moved into the wilderness to get away from the British, to the Boer War in 1899 which kept them sullen subjects of the British Crown...
...unparalleled assault upon the continuity of civilization and tKe peace of mankind," India's response was spontaneous and overwhelming. When, on Sept. 11, 1939, King George VI asked India to fight "for a principle which is vital to the future of mankind," the response was reluctant and sullen...
Divorced. Freeman F. Gosden, 41. Virginia-born tenor half of the radio team "Amos V Andy"; by Leta S. Gosden, 40; after twelve years' marriage; because he had become "sullen and morose"; in Los Angeles...