Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Very real and moving is "An Idyll of the Shops" by Ben Hooht and Kenneth Sawyer Good win, It would be difficult to find a better one act play of its kind a better picture of the grim conditions of modern industry frustrating human life at every turn, of health happiness and love succumbing to start necessity. Fom first to last the play is naturally and convincingly acted. The lovers by Miss Dorothy Waterman and Mr. Robert Cushing the workman who was once so gay and now returns to beg for his old job, still trying pathetically to keep...
...precisely two o'clock, one afternoon last week, a long grim cavalcade of motor cars entered Shanghai from the South. Armed men, a hundred strong, rode in these automobiles-modern equivalents of a bodyguard of cavalry. A slim but unmistakably commanding Southern Chinese, clad in a uniform entirely unadorned, rode in the third motor car. This was the great Conqueror of half China (TIME, Sept. 20 et seq.), the Nationalist War Lord Chiang Kaishek...
Albania is a country of grim politics, sudden tribal uprisings, secret murders, and foreign intrigues. No man was even better suited to such an environment than Fan Noli and those interested it Albanian politics will be sure to heat from him soon again...
...desert after the Hortons and young Traynor. Stumbling mules wrenched along in makeshift harness. Automobiles of every make, rusty and knocking, shiny and squeaky, dodged and swerved along the crowded track. Derby hats, caps, fedoras and sombreros rolled by. Slick city men talked loudly. Rough desert men looked grim. The Bad Lands that the Indians call Malapai woke up as they had not awakened since Jim Butler's mule kicked open the silver vein that made Tonopah in 1900. They rattled and rumbled for 40 miles, to Weepah, a treeless place on the "bench" (foothill plateau) of the Silver...
...deftly handled with occasional bits in quite the Stevensonian vein. Naturally it is the very modern heroine who undoes the doctor by giving herself to him when he had expected to seduce her formally. She, so to speak, ravishes from him the long nurtured orchid of his wickedness. The grim dénouement, though revealed at the inception of the plot, is so skillfully contrived as to come off amid real suspense. Altogether a fine technical performance by an author who pretends only to melodrama but achieves something more...