Word: slump
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Hatless Sirs: TIME, Dec. 2 : "... Slump brought on primarily by feminine hatlessness." Understatement ! Rather: ''Slump brought on primarily by feminine hat designers." A woman, I, hatless, prefer not to be caught alive in many of the hats offered...
...slump seems to indicate they CAN'T sell us anything...
...prevailing mood in Washington was gloom. Apprehensively the country read the Washington columnists, whose reports of U. S. defense preparations read last week like the opening chapters of so many ghost stories. "We are in a pause," gloomed Columnist Ray Clapper (Scripps-Howard). "Slump," wailed Columnist Dorothy Thompson (New York Herald Tribune), who printed reports that the President is in a "down" mood. Even Franklin Roosevelt's closest adherents questioned his two-week cruise; wondered how he dared leave. Washington seemed to be sinking back into the swamp whence it was reclaimed...
Prolonged slump has wrought many changes in Wall Street. Lunch-hour groups of pallid clerks cluster about skyscraper entrances, talk of their latest "Scotch Week" (forced leave) in subdued tones. There are fewer limousines, fewer taxis, there is even plenty of parking space. Inside the skyscrapers, scores of vacant desks are evidence of little business, ironclad leases. Instead of an excited mob in the customers' room, a few clerks doze or play ticktacktoe...
...scoring punch of previous games, but this was probably brought about by the fact that the Bay-states offered one of the best defensive combinations that the team has met all year. The Johnnie's last minute drive showed that they are no longer subject to a last period slump like that in the Williams game, and they should be at top form when they meet the tough Dartmouth eleven next meet...