Word: bleaknesses
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...indeed, the convention has seemed bleak and drear. There is much that is bright and beautiful about the Forest City, but the delegates are heavy with sobering business, and their rendezvous is close to the sooted and drab Union Station and the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument...
...rhymed attack, both bleak and black...
Yale harbored a boisterous crew of farmers' sons. In its bleak, ill lighted, and unheated halls was small opportunity for the niceties. It knew little of the works and life of Franklin, but worshipped the epigram and death of Nathan Hale. Place on the football team, in college office, and secret societies went to the low of brow, heavy of hand, and swift of limb...
...word is "bloody." You can write it, but you can't speak it-at least according to the censor. Another well-known novel will appear in a stage version when Margaret Anglin opens in San Francisco this June with The Great Lady Dedlock (adapted from Dickens' Bleak House) by Paul Kester. Mr. Kester is said to have worked four years on the play. With the decline of the New York theatrical season has come an increase in the use of the "twofer" system by managers who are not yet quite ready to send their attractions to the storehouse...
There is more starvation in the world today than there was in the old world before the war. Pick up your papers almost any day, and read of the countless thousands subsisting on grass and roots in Russia, and of the famished thousands on the bleak islands of Greece and on the coast of the Aegean. Never were there so many homeless people as wander today seeking a place where they may lay their heads. Can we say that, in this so called "new world", womanhood and childhood is more respected and more loved? I fear not. The public reads...