Word: bleakness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bleak, rainy afternoon, years later, in an office in a northern navy yard, a group of men talked idly, as sailors will. What more natural than that their memories should revert to sunnier scenes, and several having served in Samoa, the talk soon turned on this very incident. As the event was illuminated from different points in time the following sequel developed...
...bleak night last December eight men flying north from Charleston, S. C. were strapped in their seats in an Eastern Air Lines transport, undisturbed by the rough air because their pilot was famed Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill, whose exploits, besides flying U. S. mail in a bathing suit (see cut, p. 74), have included twice hopping the Atlantic (TIME, Sept. 14, 1936). Suddenly a thudding shiver ran through the plane as a wingtip sliced a treetop. Recalled Passenger W. T. Critchfield: "It sounded at first like a heavy truck running on gravel very fast. I looked at Saggio [a passenger...
...Monckton, and the Royal Family had to face among other matters the Duke's demand that provision be made not only for himself during his lifetime but for Mrs. Simpson, irrespective of whether he lives or dies. Windsor was in irascible mood last week, perhaps because of the bleak weather in Austria which kept him indoors. Incessantly he telephoned not only Mrs. Simpson but various people in England. At 1 a. m. the Buckingham Palace operator was told from Schloss Enzesfeld to put on the wire Major Ulick Alexander, Keeper of the Privy Purse of King George...
...biggest vegetable shippers in the U. S., owner of rich farms in Texas' lower Rio Grande Valley, sharp-eyed Dealer Vahlsing makes money on Bonita carrots, advertised by radio's homiest housewife, Martha Deane. Says he: "Martha Deane, she's my carrot. . . ." From his bleak warehouse office on Manhattan's Warren Street, Dealer Vahlsing sends a man up to Nova Scotia early in July to make contracts with landowners and woodcutters. In October Vahlsing's man rounds up about ten crews of four or five men each, starts them cutting the most symmetrical young firs...
...shabby five-room cottage at Longwood, on a bleak plateau on the island, the tragi-comedy of Napoleon's exile worked itself out. He adjusted himself to it more readily than anyone else. He romped with the children, teased the pretty, high-spirited 14-year-old Betsy Balcolme, a St. Helena heiress who played tricks on him, pulled his hair, once almost killed him with one of her pranks. Making a great fuss over his rights, Napoleon outsmarted his jailers almost from habit, played on the sympathies of Europe, started such rumors that presently a large body of troops...