Word: grimmer
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...franker pain and shock than most films dare to hand an audience without Boris Karloff to reassure them it is all in fun-a scene with a screwily bellicose veteran of World War I (Chill Wills-see cut), a horrible fracas between Zack and a dog, a still grimmer scene in which Zack, alone in his Y.M.C.A. room, all but drowns in a maelstrom of the unforgettable noises of combat...
Quagmire and Abattoir. "Withdrawal from France" was a grim phrase, for official German utterance. The prospects of actually withdrawing the remaining German forces were grimmer still. France was now a quagmire as well as an abattoir. The German Seventh Army, foolishly reinforced by elements of the Fifteenth which had been guarding the robot-bomb coast, was pinned against the Seine, under a withering blast of Allied fire from the ground...
Letters from Tatty and Sally Bagby helped Mrs. Spaatz to fill in the picture of life in England which grew grimmer as the greatest test of the war approached. Tooey temporarily forsook the guitar (on which he is a fair hand) and, with a gesture to the fates worthy of an old ballplayer, he has refused to wear any headgear save a battered, villainous cap of the smartly sloppy Air Forces type...
...next night, and the next, the sirens sounded for light, hit-& -run raids. On the fifth night the heavy bombers came once more in force, planted new fires beside the old. Berliners were wearier, dirtier, grimmer as they worked to clear up the damage. Men were unshaven for lack of water. Food stores were closing down...
...prudent neutrality" with President Ramón Castillo at the helm, ran smack into an unexpected obstacle last week. The shock came from a direction whence it was least expected-Britain. It left crew and helmsman surprised and angry. When he had weathered it, Captain Castillo was a grimmer and a wiser...