Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Behoover would be accepted by the Hoovers as First Dog was, however, uncertain. It promised to be a delicate matter. Of course, so illustrious a pet would be welcomed and appreciated by anyone with any feeling at all for dogs. But the Hoovers had a dog already, a shaggy, grim-grinning German police dog, perfectly respectable as to breeding though no multiple champion. To predict that this staunch friend of Commerce Department days would be relegated at the White House to give place to ever-so-aristocratic Bellhaven Behoover, was something few predicters would venture. The odds seemed the other...
Doubled was the gravity of this grim account when it appeared how widespread are the areas where red flames reared high, last week, and crude Kulak butcher knives carved the white flesh of "women as well as men." Named as trouble centers by Isvestia were Irkutsk in Siberia, Minsk and Smolensk in White Russia, Kiev in the Ukraine, and three important towns on the upper, middle and lower Volga River - Yarosalve, Samara and Stalingrad. The latter and famed town is not the birth place of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin but a strategic base which he valorously defended against the "White...
...serfs by Tsar Alexander II in 1861. In a grey, snowy twilight a crowd of the poor are gathered in Moscow's Red Square. Looming through the soft fall of flakes is the ornate Cathedral of St. Basil, multicolored cupolas and towers bedizened with snow. Beyond lie the grim walls and towers of the Kremlin. The people have just heard the ukase. They stand in clusters, joyfully inarticulate, habitually stolid. The bizarre tints of the Cathedral glimmer like a huge lantern of faith above and beyond the awestruck host...
This new book, then, is only a restatement of the old grim joke of those who start after the Holy Grail or the secret of the stars and end up in a maze of very stark, human, and rather pitiful desire. The men and women who take this pilgrimage are of all kinds, all equally well drawn. Mr. Burlap, the editor of a weekly paper who "believe in Life" and makes his paper do so too, is perhaps the most faithfully depicted...
Arthur Seymour Sullivan, meanwhile, was a serious-minded music student for all his Irish-Italian blood and romantic ancestry: his grandfather was favorite in Napoleon's body guard at St. Helena, and had the grim duty of protecting the dead Little Corporal's heart from voracious rats. But Arthur was a sweet-faced choirboy, beloved mascot of his father's band, successful candidate for a Leipzig Mendelssohn scholarship. Returned to London, he wrote cantatas, oratorios, 56 hymns (among them Onward Christian Soldiers), and also popular lyrics (The Lost Chord), and operetta-burlesque (Cox and Box). Victoria smiled...