Word: bleakness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They would discover Carne's success in creating mood or atmosphere--here one of acute depression, of utter hopelessness--by a combination of action, settings, lines, incidental characters, facial expressions, and omnipresent fog. They would feel themselves drawn into this gray morass until they themselves know the inevitable bleak prospect awaiting these characters. They would feel actual physical strain in the suspense which piles up to the only possible denouement...
...first thousand years of the Christian era the little island of Britain was overrun by hordes of men who rose up out of the sea. In the Fifth Century came the Angles, from somewhere on the bleak coast of the Baltic. Ships brought them, and when their kings died they were buried in ships with their bows pointing toward the sea. Last week on a hilltop estate near Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, diggers unearthed for a Mrs. E. M. Pretty a funeral ship that had lain untouched under a mound of earth some 13 centuries...
Gold gave San Francisco 13 dailies, several times as many weeklies, literary journals which flourished without advertising. These combined serious poems with miners' correspondence, frontier burlesque and tall tales with such polished articles as "An Epitome of Goethe's Faust," pirated novels such as Bleak House with condensed news columns called "Eastern intelligence." ("One of the pioneers of Washoe, James A. Rogers, blew his brains out, September 2nd. Cause: discouraged...
Outside of typical Grade B weakness, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" rates a passing grade as a mystery thriller. The horror of the bleak, English moors--which is almost becoming the screen character of His Majesty's isle--is well supported by the business-like Sherlock of Basil Rathbone and a very satisfying "elementary, my dear Watson" by Nigel Bruce...
...Skeels told how he took 13 mentally retarded pre-school infants away from a bleak Iowa orphanage packed with healthy, intelligent moppets, and placed them in a home for feeble-minded girls. The inmates lavished upon the deficient babies a wealth of feeble-minded love. They made them toys, watched them play, gave them plenty of room to run around. Within two years, to the psychologist's amazement, the intelligence quotients of twelve of the orphans rose sharply, in some cases as much as 40 points, and they appeared superior in intelligence to their playmates in the asylum. Later...