Word: bleaknesses
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...cozy ceremony took place last week in the White House. President Roosevelt sat in his study-the Oval Room on the second floor, overlooking the wintry south lawn towards the bleak pinnacle of the Washington monument-surrounded by his paintings of white-sailed ships scouring green-blue seas. Around him was gathered an intimate group, some two dozen personal friends and members of his official family. They were there to witness the administration of two oaths of office, simple in themselves, but of large importance to the company inside, to the country outside. The chief clerk of the Treasury swore...
...aware of fur. anxious to own some. Warmish weather handicapped them in New York and other sections, but by the end of the week they felt they were off to a prosperous season. Fur men had other reasons for feeling cheerful last week.* They had begun 1933 with three bleak years behind them. Both manufacturers and retailers had swung into the year with stocks low. Trappers, discouraged by low prices, had cut down their output. U. S. women seemed possessed of an endless ability to make their old coats last one more year. In February sales of pelts to manufacturers...
...third time in two years, John Farmer was supposed to go on strike last week. And in many a bleak Midwestern county he did so, with right goodwill. In spite of announcement by the strike's fomenter, wild-haired, bespectacled Milo Reno, that "instructions were issued that there was not to be any picketing," John Farmer went out on the highways to turn back city-bound shipments of foodstuffs. Iowa, seat of the Farmers Holiday Association, was the scene of widespread picketing. A man driving a truckload of cattle into Sioux City was badly beaten. Governor Herring called...
...right at this moment but where is your room? Don't be funny," or by a blank and amazed stare and "I didn't know there were rooms here," spoken in such a tone that it is not difficult to see what the speaker is imagining, either some bleak little hole-in-the-wall tucked away behind the kitchens or a dim alcove in a dingy attic...
Board of Trade Walter Runciman, one of the Empire's greatest shipping and industrial tycoons, went out to bleak Penzance and told an audience of sturdy Cornish constituents that President Roosevelt's neglect thus far to stabilize the dollar has jeopardized his chances of succeeding with...