Word: grim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress to look unusually grave. There were a few exceptions: midway in the speech, Republican Leader Bob Taft took off his glasses, rubbed his face and yawned prodigiously in his front-row seat. When the Congress rose to applaud at the end of the speech, Harry Truman's grim expression was outdone only by that of New York's Communist-line Representative, Vito Marcantonio. To be different, Little Marc "applauded" by tapping his palm with a cigaret...
...Hope. A fine, grim war film, made in Spain in 1938 by Novelist André Malraux (TIME...
...Lady Tichborne begged her husband to give them some of his land. The Master of Tichborne gazed coldly at his bedridden lady. "Very well," he said at last. "An you're so generous, you may give my land away-all that you yourself can walk around." With a grim laugh, he left the room. But Lady Tichborne, even her dying womanpower not to be underestimated, crept from her bed and down the stairs. By the end of the day, moving painfully on hands & knees, she had encircled 23 acres, known to this day in Hampshire as "The Crawls...
...bottom of a black hole, deeper than twice the height of the Empire State Building, a coal miner named Josef earned his daily bread this difficult winter. Fifteen European countries, including Germany, have a grim interest in Josef, for their economic revival is closely tied to the amount of coal which he and some 300,000 other miners win from the rich Ruhr mines. In the dust-choked gloom of the pit face TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth talked with Josef, trying to learn why the miners are producing only half as much as before...
...Hope. Not "entertainment," but a fine, grim film about the Spanish Civil War, made in 1938 by Novelist Andre Malraux (TIME...