Word: grimmer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knew their brothers in other countries almost as well as they do today. There were exchange professors, grants for study abroad, Olympic games since 1896, and gatherings of savants, clerymen, laity, and diplomats to discuss concerns ranging from postal rates to tuberculosis. Men in the trenches had even grimmer human contacts. Yet if the bureaucracies were to decide for war, the nations would respond, and it would be the students who would occupy the trenches hacking at each other. An Oxford Union man would command a bombing squadron, American students who signed the Brown Daily Herald pledge to renounce...
...whip up some of the oldtime spirit that characterized the trimmer, grimmer A. E. F., President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps, the army of jobless forestry workers, last week commenced publishing its own weekly, Happy Days ("The Newspaper with a Smile"). Edited from Washington by Melvin Ryder, Vol. I No. 1 was frankly imitative of the A. E. F.'s Stars & Stripes. Cartoonist Abian Anders ("Wally") Wallgren of Stars & Stripes supplied humorous sketches of C. C. C. camp life. A Cyrus Leroy Baldridge drawing ("Peeling Spuds") was reprinted from Stars & Stripes. Pages of photographs showed enlistment lines, chow...
...Sayre's Rackety Rax got a good press and went to Hollywood; Hizzoner the Mayor deserves an even better fate. Riotously jovial satire, it sets ringing no tocsin of reform but the welkin echoes its topical tintinnabulations. Aside from and under its uproarious humor, Hizzoner the Mayor has grimmer implications that need underlining nowadays for few U. S. citizens. In the perennial Augean task of turning the rascals out, such hearty slapstick broom-thwacks as Author Sayre's may be as effective in the long run as all the Herculean street-cleaning apparatus of a Judge Seabury...
...OCTOBER-Sigurd Hoel-Coward-McCann ($2). Second-prizewinner in a recent Inter-Scandinavian Fiction Contest; much grimmer than Author Hoel's Sinners in Summertime. NAPOLEON-Hilaire Belloc-Lippincott ($4). For admirers of Belloc's indefatigable partisanries. LETTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS TO THE BARONESS BURDETT-COUTTS-Button ($2.50). Hitherto unpublished letters of an aging novelist to a lady charitarian. A LONG TIME AGO-Margaret Kennedy-Doubleday, Doran ($2). Reviewed next week...
Looking greyer, gaunter, grimmer than ever, Utah's 70-year-old Senator Reed Smoot arose behind his paper-cluttered aisle desk last week to perform an important function. Bracing his drooping shoulders as if to bear an invisible load, he announced: "Mr. President, from the Committee on Finance I report back favorably with amendments the bill (H. R. 10236) to provide revenue, equalize taxation and for other purposes...