Word: bleakness
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...north at Basle in the German-speaking neck of Switzerland drowses a bleak building once the Hotel de I'Univers, today the financial watch tower not only of Europe and Asia but of the entire world. Through its small lobby scurry page boys, their grey liveries initialed in silver with the suggestive letters, BIZ. The big table around which biggest business is done by the Governors of Banks of England, France, Germany Italy, Japan and a U. S. group headed by J.P. Morgan & Co. is draped in grey, the color of money bags. On this grey table lay fresh...
...long. After lunch he napped. In a cold drizzle during the late afternoon he reeled in eight more trout, bringing his day's catch to the legal limit. Sunday newspapers and White House mail were dropped into the camp from an Army airplane. Wet, bleak weather drove the President & party back to Washington early...
Most Heavily Taxed? Thus Chancellor Chamberlain did not much alter the tax status quo conjured up by that bleak British boast, "We are the world's most heavily taxed people...
Four years ago Marshal Wu went into the bleak, howling wilderness of Tibet (TIME, April, 16, 1928). There in a monastery perched on a mountain crag he composed a tome of Buddhist poems, painting each character daintily with his artful brush. This scholarly job done and his Fatherland being still stricken by famine, pestilence and war, sedate Scholar Wu buckled on again the sword of a Marshal, returned from lonely Tibet to overcrowded China and today looms potently upon the scene. Equally to President Chiang Kai-shek of China and to Marshal Wu was addressed last week a most amazing...
Under the bleak late-Victorian beamed roof of Westminster Church House last week sat the Worshipful Frederick Keppel North, Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich, at the head of an ecclesiastical court to hear charges preferred by the Lord Bishop of Norwich against Rev. Harold F. Davidson. Church House was packed with prebendaries, minor canons, curates, newshawks. By nightfall British readers grew pop-eyed over the details of "the most sensational trial in church history." the trial of the "lewd rector of Stiffkey...