Word: bleakness
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Belles-lettres are practically overwhelmed in this avalanche of social neuroses. Mr. Ames' "Two Beers" is a brief and vivid picture of an episode in contemporary life that chimes in with the bleak tone of the other writers. Mr. Strauss' "Third Class" is an able story in which, as the title indicates, the consciousness of social maladjustment figures, perhaps in this case too much dragged in by the horns. This story would, I think, be an altogether admirable job if Mr. Strauss had not at one point joined a long line of authors whose seriously intended effects have been rudely...
Ever since the day in 1930 when his American Gothic won $300 and a bronze medal from the Chicago Art Institute, the name of Grant Wood has echoed persistently throughout the land. In five years, Artist Wood's picture of the bleak, bald Iowa farmer with the pitchfork and his daughter with the cameo and the printed apron has become almost as well known to the U. S. Public as Washington Crossing the Delaware. Yet not until last week did Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries succeed in borrowing American Gothic from the Art Institute of Chicago, Dinner for Threshers...
...have provided a field day for professional newspaper humorists. In last week's exhibition there was a little section of 25 pictures, just as inept, just as badly painted as the rest, that caused no jeers. They were the work of eight convicts at New York's bleak Clinton Prison, Dannemora...
...annual budget with a triumphant surplus of ?31,148,000 (then $159.477,760), and reduced the basic British income tax rate from five shillings on the pound (25%) to four shillings sixpence (20%). Said hawk-nosed Mr. Chamberlain dryly, "I think the nation has finished the story of Bleak House and can begin that of Great Expectations...
...Department had promised to send in the summer of 1882 failed to arrive. Next summer the relief ship cracked up in the ice, sank. Acting on his original orders, Lieut. Adolphus Washington Greely then led his party down the coast of Ellesmere Island from Lady Franklin Bay to bleak Cape Sabine. Expecting to find a relief party there, he found instead only a few supplies which earlier expeditions had left behind...