Word: bleakness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are no trees, no grass in Red Square, Moscow's vast bleak oblong. But at least once a year the grey granite pavement (new-laid by a firm of U. S. contractors) sprouts with the thin steel blades of thousands of bayonets. It did so last week for the 13th anniversary of the Soviet state. Hour after hour the troops filed by, impressive in their grey-brown, ankle-length overcoats while airplanes flew back and forth in formation...
Deaf as a post, or nearly, is great General Ismet Pasha, Prime Minister. At the railway station in Angora, bleak Turkish Capital, he warmly greeted last week a Greek, famed Eleutherios Venizelos, Prime Minister. Before M. Venizelos could speak, deaf General Ismet embraced him with a bear-hug. Arm in arm they left the station...
Fifteen miles from Atlanta rises the bleak face of Stone Mountain. Weather-beaten tool houses and engineers' shacks balance precariously on its summit; ladders, derricks, remnants of scaffolding cling to its flank. Two sculptors have blasted and worried a hole in its face into a semblance of General Robert E. Lee on his horse, Traveller. They have left a pile of granite debris at its base which Quarryman San Venable of Atlanta, former owner of Stone Mountain, declares will take five years to remove. To Stone Mountain there returned last week Gutzon Borglum, carver of mountains...
Toscanini's début was like a breath of warm invigorating spring blowing from his sunny Milan through the bleak Cosimaridden atmosphere of the Sacred Hill. His name and fame hung out the "Ausverkauft" (sold-out) sign in the Festspielhaus long before the first performance. His brilliant Tannhäusers and sublime Tristans outshone even the Parsifals of so great an oldtime Wagnerian as Karl Muck whose conducting has been one of the few bright spots of recent festivals. The German orchestra with which Toscanini worked, whose language he did not know, grumbled at first over the almost...
...harbor). Left behind were hundreds of other sheep, too wild to catch, hidden away in the island caves with the seamews and the puffins. Reason for the exodus: St. Kilda's new owner, the Marquess of Ailsa and the British Labor Government had both decided that bleak St. Kilda is unfit for human habitation. Said Lord Ailsa's son, Archibald Kennedy, Earl of Cassillis...