Word: grimly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drab. What it takes Zona Gale has got. Out of the ruck of close-to-the-soil Midwestern authors she emerged with her first book. Her stories are as realistic as bread but they have a homemade flavor, not to be had without a personal recipe. She handles a grim subject with skilfully gentle, feminine hands...
Darkness, literal and figurative, hung heavily over Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon as a desperate coaching staff, labored far into the night over the University football squad after its disappointing showing in the Saturday tie with William and Mary. With the grim outlook of the strong Michigan invasion only five days away, Coach Horween put out the storm signals with a vengeance...
...Because grim, humorless Senator William Henry ("Mac") McMaster, insurgent Republican up for reelection, loves the Hoover Administration no more than does lean-faced, witty Governor William John Bulow, his Democratic senatorial opponent, South Dakota this year is a political battlefield practically barren of national issues. However Nominee Bulow's blunt comedy-Will Rogers once called him "funnier than I am"-has saved their campaign from stagnation. Last week he declared: "They ain't any great issues out here, I guess. Mac's got a job and I want it." Nominee Bulow is famed for his tobacco chewing...
...Texas roast its blacks alive, Let racketeers extend and thrive, Let gangsters flourish and survive By methods grim and gory! But Knee-high shorts shall still preserve The noble mind, the fearless nerve And still shall culture's highest curve Remain Columbia's glory...
Utterly different in character, the products of the more casual atmosphere of Harvard are inevitably put on the block for comparison with those of the grim government industry, a comparison that involves not only team play, but also individual undergraduate attitude and sportsmanship. But with the traditional slum and gravy signs, the future generals will come again for the annual fiasco, and John Harvard will discard his Bible for a glance at the future defenders of the rights of the peaceful...