Word: bleakness
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Snowflakes, light and fluffy, powdered impudently, last week, the Sovereign Principality of Monaco. A bleak sea breeze whipped in across the Casino terrace, whining up long avenues of shivering palms. At the gaming rooms warmth and pulsing chance continued to abide?for business is business?but in a private room at the Casino de Paris, nearby a group of solemn diners pushed back their chairs, lifted their glasses slowly, and drank a last deep toast to "Poor Camille...
...five-mile stretch ust west of Paris was impossible. So the firemen loaded their trucks on railroad cars and shipped them by rail to Subiaco. They wasted no time. But when they arrived at the monastery they found little to do other than to look at the bleak walls, the shivering students and monks...
Football games in the Autumn rumble gently through the end of September, thump through October, thunder through November until late in the month, on a bleak windy afternoon, the Autumn storm breaks with a great roar of band music and cheering voices. This is the afternoon when the four eyes of a nervous Army mule and a tattered Navy goat are alone too frightened to watch their teams tussle on a darkening field...
...toast" offered John Harvard by the undergraduate correspondent of the Yale Alumni Weekly is of that variety known hereabouts as thin and well buttered. Its details are sadistic, its bases dadaistic: and the impression left after reading it is that of a blue hangover, a bleak Monday morning in New Haven. Nevertheless it is amusing, just as many slightly idiotic things are amusing...
...represent Dickens, there is a copy of the first edition of "Bleak House" and also several letters to his friends. A note from George Cruikshank comments on the cartoons for the Pickwick Papers...