Word: grimier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crowds of laboring men and poorly dressed women cried "Good old Mac!" as the tall Laborite and Daughter Ishbel passed through the Customs shed in grimy Liverpool. There were more cheers at London's grimier Euston station. But there was no such spontaneous, frenzied welcome from all classes as crippled Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden received when he brought home his piece of "Reparations Sponge Cake" from The Hague (TIME, Sept. 9). Mr. MacDonald was not "chaired" (carried in British triumph shoulder high) as was Mr. Snowden. In his empty hands he brought only Peace...
...gang" and a few oil men were developing nest eggs by big deals arid little black satchels. No doubt, much of this was grimy work. With scarcely any of the attitude of now-it-can-be-told, with a confident feeling of now-it-can-be-sold, an even grimier novel- has recently been published. Novelist Adams takes as his hero Willis Markham, President of the U. S., a poker-playing, whiskey-drinking, easygoing, good-natured pal who was lifted suddenly to the highest office in the land by his shrewd political friends. "Chief" Markham, as the boys call...
...best part of this story is a quotation from the funeral service: "Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower. . . ." The last story, "The Letter," has a better and grimier plot. A thin, sensitive, charming married woman shoots, kills, a man who, she said, tried to rape her. The court acquits her. Really, she killed him because he had cast her aside in favor of a fat Chinawoman...