Word: grim
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Ostracized in their weird structure on the Mount Auburn-Bow street dividing line, the Lampoon phalanx is anxiously practising how to take defeat graciously in the annual contest next Wednesday. The champion CRIMSON hockey team meanwhile awaits with grim glee its yearly job as executioner, all of the winning players being judged in the pink of condition...
...days when Yale used to win most of her games from Harvard, the Harvard sneer at Yale for making such a serious matter of her sports was very familiar. Harvard used to say, and try to believe, that play ought not to be made such grim work. Now that conditions are reversed, the attitude toward football, assumed or real, is reversed also. Yale takes some satisfaction in saying that Hinkey has made the game enjoyable to his men anyhow. On the other hand it is evident that Harvard now makes as serious a matter of its sports as Yale used...
...Bartholomew's Eve" by F. W. Tuttle deals with the fight of Sir Philip Sydney and the Duc d'Anjou over a woman on the eve of the terrible massacre during the reign of Charles IX of France. The fourth play, "The Stranger" is a grim tragedy of identity by A. F. Jenks, Yale...
...Beach '13, author of "Let's Get Married," has written "The Clod," a short play laid in the mountain districts of the South at the time of the Rebellion. It tells with grim intensity the story of a woman, entirely calloused and deadened by the monotony of her life, and of her reaction to a wholly probable melodramatic incident that calls upon her for a volitional action to which she is unaccustomed. The struggle between her almost atrophied will and events that demand forceful direction makes an engrossing play of character and action...
...Bank Account," by H. F. Brock sC., is a grim play of modern scene in which a wife's misuse of the money her husband has given her to save shatters his slowly built-up hopes of independence. The farm he had hoped to be able to buy is lost to him, and he must return to office routine...