Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incoming students a false impression, and lead the young to over-indulgence in the vice of tobacco. They cited evidence to show that college women are losing their health because of smoking. No doubt they gave graphic details of flooors strewn with cigarette butts, of smoking bouts fought with grim determination, of gloomy morning afters from nicotine orgies. The alumnae had no comeback; they meekly agreed to this drastic prohibition...
Power and Power. When the resolution by Montana's grim and stormy Walsh for a Senate investigation into the financial and political practices of the "power trust" (TIME, Feb. 13) was reported favorably to the Senate, anxious looks passed among the Democrats. "There is more than one way in which power can be abused," said these looks. Georgia's quiet George offered an amendment to his colleague's resolution, shifting the investigation from the Senate's hands to the Federal Trade Commission...
...Brambles Bank almost completely blocks the Southampton channel off Cowes. It was only a minor accident and the Leviathan was afloat again in two hours, when the tide rose. But Commodore Cunningham tugged his cap down over the face that has caused him to be called "Handsome Harry," in grim mortification...
Culled from the grim pages of Author Loos's comedy, the subtitles have the brilliance and at least part of the durability of a diamond bracelet, which, as Lorelei Lee remarked in a wisecrack which has since been heard around the world, will last forever. Altogether, in its slyly sympathetic exposition of gold-digging as a fine art, the picture has precisely the delicious flavour of its literary model...
...Minnesota, where the Mississippi spreads itself to be Lake Pepin, a giant rock looms high, the grim reminder of the fate of the Princess Winona. Strangers passing by are inevitable told of the Indian girl and her love for Chatonska, bravest of her uncle's warriors, how with him away at battle she was wedded against her will to the hawk-nosed Matosapa, chief of a neighboring tribe, how, singing, she jumped to her death "and the place ever since has been known as Maiden Rock...