Word: bleakness
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...racket, jump to the thought that every successful man has his own racket, move on to the natural conclusion that business is a racket, politics a racket, government a racket, ideals a racket, organizations a racket, religion a racket, and so, with inexorable logic, reach the final bleak conviction that life itself...
...clock of bleak Winton Green Prison in Birmingham chimed 9. A milk delivery cart rattled down the street outside the prison walls, where 500 persons stood shivering in a cold Midlands...
...Mice and Men (United Artists). This first John Steinbeck picture is U. S. amusement seekers' third exposure to his bleak account of manly affection between two bin die stiffs (tramps who tote their own blankets) on a California grain ranch. It was first a novel, then a Broadway play...
...factor of all his bindle stiffs, made their loneliness as vast as the western mountains they work among, but made them express it only in two-syllable language as mean, hard and sometimes as foul as their semisavage existence. Result was no U. S. The Lower Depths, but a bleak, unhappy little tale with a powerful climax, some of whose tenseness was due to a nervous feeling that if Author Steinbeck made one false step he would flop off his tightrope...
...Crimson cage picture, however, is not a bleak as might be imagined, because the young squad refused to crack at any time before the amazing Dartmouth marksmanship display, and several of the Feslermen besides Lutz showed to advantage. The team played as carefully as possible and actually controlled the ball...