Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...characters, surrounded by more complicated circumstances. In this class of his writings he introduces together with realistic detail, a type which is brought out and emphasized by his skill in individualizing character. "A Modern Instance" is an example of this style of novel and although furiously attacked for the grim and sordid tastes which it details, is yet to be considered one of his best three books. A man who can draw such characters as we find in "A Modern Instance" and make them live and move in the sordid environment of a third rate journalism certainly did not merit...
...translation into Greek from Parkman's Conspiracy of Pontiac, Chapter 1., beginning, "Of the Indian character much has been written foolishly," and ending, "his look of grim defiance...
...cause of Harald, and for distinguished services was made a baron. He invited Harald to his home, after a successful war, and entertained him royally. But secret plots were discovered under the mask of his hospitality, and he was put to death by Harald. Wolf and the other son Grim were forced to leave Norway and sailed for Iceland. On the way, Wolf died, having requested that his body be placed in a chest and set afloat and also that Grim should settle wherever the chest was washed ashore. The request was followed out implicitly. Grim had also two sons...
...acquainted with Capt. Smith since at the time of the latter's death in 1631, Harvard was still a student at Cambridge. Smith's name had been for some time one of romantic interest, however, and there was much truth in the epitaph put above his grave-"the grim King has at last conquered one who in his time conquered many kings...
...have no doubt that our actions will be criticised severely by outsiders. But if looked at below the surface, the result of Saturday's game means more than the ordinary athletic victory. It means that Harvard has stuck to the work of beating Yale all these years with a grim determination, that in the face of defeat after defeat Harvard has always started in again with renewed energy, and finally has been successful. There is every reason, including a moral reason, why Harvard should be jubilant now that Yale is beaten...