Word: bleakness
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...land of Acre," the Metropolitan Museum of Art has found better examples of 12th and 13th century A.D. war, commercial and household goods than it had been able to find in Europe, where such things have been destroyed, lost or remodeled. Palestine, in those bleak centuries, was a European province. Leading crusaders lived luxuriously and busily. When the Mohammedans finally drove them out, their goods were abandoned. Looters could not find them all. Hence the Metropolitan Museum's delvers made rich cultural finds at the isolated fortress of Montfort, old headquarters of the Hospitalers of Our Lady...
...Wind blows without stopping all year long across the bleak pocket of the prairie to which Lillian Gish comes in her first picture in a year and a half. Her cousin's wife, a prairie woman whose hands are almost always bloody from cutting up steers, is jealous of the influence of the visiting Gish girl over her home, her husband, her tough, irritable children. When the girl is forced to marry a cattle-rustler to get away from her cousin's house, a drama, familiar in its conflicts but brooding, powerful, works up in the clapboard house...
STRANGE INTERLUDE?Bleak and elaborate notes, by Eugene O'Neill and the Theatre Guild, on one woman's life (TIME...
...intrepid scientists will not live entirely bleak and barren lives. They may improve their minds. For light reading, they will have: The Little Blue Books (1,280 volumes donated by the Haldernan-Julius Co.), the Harvard Classics, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a set of the works of Rudyard Kipling (Doubleday, Doran), a dictionary (Merriam...
Lonely and bleak is the Scottish castle of Achmacarry. Trout leap warily in its streams. Startled grouse fill its woods with low thunder. Bold would he be of heart, who went alone to Castle Achmacarry, as the enemy of its famed tenant, Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, director-general of Royal Dutch Shell...