Word: bleakness
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...more natural than ours, and that the world which the early poets looked at, and through which they walked, had a kind of poetical quality of its own, and almost without changing could pass into song. The snow lies, thick now upon Olympus, and its steeped scarped sides are bleak and barren, but once, we fancy, the white feet of the Muses brushed the dew from the anemones in the morning, and at evening came Apollo to sing to the shepherds in the vale. But in this we are merely lending to other ages what we desire, or think...
...subject of "Labrador" in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House tonight at 7.45. The meeting, which is given under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society of Phillips Brooks House, will be open to all members of the University. Dr. Grenfell is an authority on all that pertains to bleak Labrador. Interesting illustrations will be shown on the screen...
...thousands of fisherman who have been held up on ice floes on the Labrador Coast. He and his assistants cared for over 12,000 patients in one year in their eight hospitals on land and the five on sea. Moreover, being almost the sole agent of civilization in the bleak north, his work has been extended so that he now operates a children's home, two industrial stations, and three clothing distribution centers, with each of which peculiar and illuminating problems are connected...
...named Boston Evening Transcript. She was not a young princess, but she was not a young Princess, but she was vigorous and well-preserved. She could not understand the cowardice of her champions. They might have faltered, she reflected, had she ever allowed a thought to furrow her bleak brow. But she was sure she had never done that. Had she been a wanton, she thought, her plight might be explainable. But had she not, year after year, proclaimed to the world her immaculate chastity...
Cambridge around Christmas time, is enveloped in an encircling gloom. What with the early departure of the Musical Clubs to the boards and ball rooms of the West, and the general exodus of students to their several homes, the University's purlieus, from Gore to Perkins, will become bleak, barren and bare. But before the members of the University disperse to the four winds, a cheerful note will be struck, that will echo in Cambridge for many...