Word: bleaknesses
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...bleak New England...
...years ago Russia sent three white men, three white women and 50 Eskimo families to bleak little Wrangel Island, disastrous site 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The people were called a colony and their planting on the island was a Soviet gesture of possession against the rival claims of the U. S. and Canada. In the 1820's the Russian Baron Wrangel heard of, but did not see, the island. In 1867, Captain Thomas Long, U. S. citizen, sailed around and named it. Just before the War, Captain Robert A. Bartlett, who recently announced his plans...
...Indiscreet Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, His Majesty's Home Secretary (TIME, Jan. 14). now vacationing on the French Riviera, said last week that he thought Their Majesties might soon remove from bleak London to sunny Menton, a few miles from Monte Carlo...
Lady Dedlock. It is hard to make plays out of Dickens. Nonetheless, famed Margaret Anglin thought quite correctly that Bleak House contained the material for a drama and she ordered Paul Kester to trim it into shape. This he tried hard to do; and Actress Anglin played his piece in the provinces, gradually improving it. Last week she thought it was fit for Broadway, and played it there...
...year ago 9.9% of Great Britain's registered workpeople were unemployed; but the figure crept up to 11.8 last November, and to 12.2 as a bleak New Year came. Correspondents found out what this means in terms of misery, last week, when they went out to Wales and visited the great coal properties of Viscountess Rhondda, admittedly one of the most humane and generous coal operators in the Empire. Appalling was too mild a word for conditions seen...