Word: bleakness
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...Mohammedans, was born (Genesis 16:11-16), a pessimistic angel acidly remarked that he would be a wild man, his hand would be against every man, and every man's hand would be against him. For two weeks his descendant Ismael* Husseyin wandered like a wild man over the bleak mountains of Anatolia. Every man's hand was against him. Last week they tracked him down...
During the 22 years in which His Majesty has been making up his mind, tragedy has stalked Clipperton Island. So bleak and blasted is the little isle that it will not support life. The Mexican garrison has had to be supplied with food from the mainland. In 1920 Mexico was so busy with revolution that she sent no food. The helpless garrison began to starve. When a boat from Mexico finally put in at Clipperton Island only one man was found alive...
Before the bleak, hospital-white walls of his gallery splattered with Marin water colors, Dealer Stieglitz stood belligerently trying to explain to reporters what there is about these pictures, formless daubs to many an initiate, that causes such enthusiasm. Said...
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...