Word: bleaknesses
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...horizons looked bleak enough for Gwilym (Welsh for William) Price in his Pennsylvania boyhood. At 16, when his father, a tin-mill worker, died, young Bill had to quit school to go to work. He studied stenography, clerked by day and read law at night. In 1917, he was the University of Pittsburgh's youngest law graduate (22). After a World War I stint overseas as a tank commander, he became a trust officer for what is now the Peoples First National Bank & Trust Co. At 44, he became the bank's president. In the following three years...
Sculptor Cousino had done his carving in Italy, and brought the statue to Biarritz under heavy wraps. When the town was all set for the gala unveiling, a municipal councilman peeped under the wrappings and saw a horrifying sight: a bleak marble pyramid capped with the head of an agonizing, sphinxlike woman...
Mother with Crystal Ball. In 1936, in a bleak stone villa in London's suburban Kingston Hill, Farouk, a tall, trim boy of 16, got a long-distance call from Cairo. It was his mother, Queen Nazli. "My son," she sobbed, "you are King...
...Stokes flew off from Teheran, the farewell was symbolically bleak. Save for the Minister of Roads and Communications, only bureaucratic underlings saw him off. The only official gift was a huge pail of caviar. Students standing by yelled, "Borol Boro...
...escape. But Martin has been to the mainland and has come back to his island with the knowledge "that the more we travel the more rootless we become." Truth in the Night is Michael McLaverty's story of their troubled courtship and tragic marriage, a tale as bleak as the rocky slopes and the grey loughs of its Irish scene, and one as nearly perfect as any ever written of its minor Irish kind...