Word: grimly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Perseus and the Aafje finally reached San Pedro last week little Robert Turner was sick, Mrs. Turner was sobbing, Lillian Morgan had begun to laugh, Nurse Berdan was grim, all near hysteria. Spernak and Home, held on charges of murder, were expected to plead self-defense. The Aafje, which Jean Dee Jarnette had hoped would carry him to a remote Paradise, was promptly attached by two ship chandlers who claimed that the late Dwight Faulding owed them...
...Juno and the Paycock" again stimulates Boston audiences with its candid humor soon lost in trenchant satire and irony, and capped by unmitigated and all-pervasive tragedy. Sean O'Casey has chosen 1922 for his grim picture, when much of the actual fighting in Ireland was over, but men were known for their deeds and their sympathies. He sets up a family from the slums of Dublin, and through them he lashes at principles stubbornly adhered to only because they are principles, the folly of romantic and aimless sacrifice, the spirit of brotherly love and humanity that fails as soon...
...awarded a cross by Fascist Italy). Moving forward on the last day with a supporting column he reported that a sudden change in the weather had almost entirely melted the blinding snows of the first day of the attack, noted a pair of happy dogs gamboling ahead of the grim advancing line of skirmishers, announced that in this entire advance of 50,000 Leftist troops he saw but one foreign officer, a Bulgarian. Suddenly at mid-afternoon two truckloads of men pulled up by the roadside where Correspondent Matthews was standing...
...Czechoslovakia's becoming a canary in Hitler's maw, turned out in a rousing welcome for the French Minister. Outside the station, crowds milled about cheering his arrival. As the official motor cavalcade rolled through the streets the crowds were held back not by lines of grim-faced troops with fixed bayonets as in Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia, but by sport-clad sokols, members of Czech gymnastic societies. Foreign correspondents saw in this display a commentary on the democratic beliefs of Czechoslovakia, in sharp contrast to the strong-arm rule evident on the Delbos trip through the Balkans...
...members of the crew could see tiny Hoishoto Island, and within a mile or two a handful of other Japanese islands-all small, bleak, sparsely inhabited. Early messages from the President Hoover's Captain George W. Yardley minimized the disaster but by last week, after six grim days of escape and rescue, the first group of passengers landed in Manila. What they had to say added up to one more shocking charge of undisciplined hooliganism against the U. S. Seaman, New Style...