Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legitimate cause for happiness; and, in the first place, their "new year" does not come until February?when it is observed with fireworks. Thus the thoughts of the docile, unoffensive people of China were not lightened by holiday fripperies, last week, but they were darkened and depressed by a grim certainty: it is at this season that Chinese leaders sow the seeds of those many civil wars which burst throughout China each summer as surely as snapdragons...
...stands Bela Bartók, Hungarian. Symphonophiles the world over know him for a revolutionist, remember his music for its brutality, its stark rhythms. Last week he made his U. S. debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra-and a great audience was surprised.* They had expected a bulky, grim-jawed man with personality to match. Instead they saw a frail little person scoot shyly around the orchestra's first-string men and bow his way almost meekly to the piano set out for him. They had expected to hear him play a new concerto which had disturbed...
...reinstated to her class room. Her friends said that she had been persecuted, that she had been ousted on prejudice rather than for her inability. "What," they asked, "is a 'paranoid form of psychosis'?" Reporters came to see Mary Byrne. They found her wearing a hat, looking grim, fiddling aimlessly with some papers that some one had given her. To all questions she replied: "I can't say anything-it wouldn't be professional." Another doctor investigated Miss Byrne; found her sane...
...wild horns of disaster blowing more closely through the quietness. Among the papers of her grandfather she found letters saying that her father was the father also of two Negro girls and Stiggins, an idiot boy who lived over a stable in the town. Theodosia, drawn by a grim curiosity, spends long hours talking to them. On the night that Lethy, one of her half-sisters, kills the lover who has deserted her, Theodosia, seeing the parallel with her own experience, goes to the house made hateful to her by her father's unforgotten lusts. Under this final strain...
...When the men came to take them out, Wm. Leeds said to the men: "'Look here, ship me on with the critters. Weigh me and ship me on.'" Said one of them: " 'Like to be butchered, eh?' 'Something,' said Wm. Leeds." Wm. Leeds waits. "Toward night . . . there he was, grim and ugly to look at, heavy and dead. . . . He was buried by the town the next morning, not far from the time of the arrival of the cattle train at the Chicago stockyards. And the beef quotations were showing an active market...