Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mice and Men (United Artists). This first John Steinbeck picture is U. S. amusement seekers' third exposure to his bleak account of manly affection between two bin die stiffs (tramps who tote their own blankets) on a California grain ranch. It was first a novel, then a Broadway play...
Grant Wood is an earthy, peaceable Iowan who manages to stir up many an artistic rumpus. His American Gothic (1930), portrait of a bleak, bald Iowa farmer and his tight-lipped daughter, at once became chief icon of the past decade's resurgent move to "paint American." His Daughters of Revolution (1932), three prim, grim, self-important matrons, scandalized the D. A. R. Lately Artist Wood has spent more time teaching and making lithographs than he has at his easel...
...best of the book is its first half: a bleak, sharp-eyed, sensitive account of what the world was like to a boy on a cruelly poor east-Kansas farm after the Civil War. In those pages George Ogden does a job on U. S. rural life such as many U. S. writers have tried and as few, living or dead, could improve on. At its best, it is what Mark Twain might have told if he had had the courage not to be genial...
...much of the profit out of gasoline retailing that even a cooperative found it hard to save much in the spread between the wholesale and retail prices of gasoline. So, last year, Cowden got his board of directors to vote for building a co-op refinery. This week, near bleak little Phillipsburg on the Kansas prairies, the new $750,000 plant is making its first run of gasoline. Middle-sized as refineries go, it will supply 40% of C. C. A.'s needs. But Cooperator Cowden was still not satisfied. In November he addressed two co-op regional assemblies...