Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other members of the Greater New York Federation of Churches attended the Federation's annual meeting; heard Rev. Charles C. Albertson of Brooklyn decry: "There has never been a time when people, especially young people, found it so difficult to believe in God." (In Brooklyn, 90 children, grim, last week proclaimed their membership in a "Society of the Godless"; mocked at school assembly prayers.) ". . . Whether or not professional evangelism has any future, pastoral evangelism has a great future and personal evangelism a greater one. . . ." (In Chicago, Professional Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson told her life story; raised hell...
...German Nationalist (Monarchist) party came to the end of its long and bitter struggle against Republican Germany last week, and definitely abandoned hope of restoring the Hohenzollerns. By a grim paradox this decision was made on the 68th birthday of Wilhelm II. The occasion was the formation of a new Cabinet by Chancellor Wilhelm Marx, whose old Cabinet resigned some weeks ago (TIME, Dec. 27). Chancellor Marx took into his new Cabinet four Nationalist ministers, after their party had acceded to the four following conditions...
Perhaps there was more in it than met the eye, but most people set the grim facts down to coincidence. "Explanations" by learned psychologists held little water beyond the obvious likelihood that one man's suicide might arrest the attention of another man who had contemplated suicide for himself...
During the construction of the cavernous city aqueduct, John and Van Horn's niece, Josephine, are engaged. But she is rescued from the Titanic disaster by smooth Garrit Rantoul, promoter of the aqueduct. She marries Rantoul instead of grim, underground, somewhat sandhoggish John. John, just promoted, quits engineering and goes on a star-spangled "bust," for three days rampaging the length, width and depth of the island labyrinth he had thought to help reconstruct...
...BIRDS-Diary of an Unknown Aviator-Doran ($3.50).* A glossy finish is not among this chronicle's properties. Not for effect but for grim, humorous, human record, and probably for relief, did the author set down in airmen's vernacular daily events and sensations from the day he sailed from Halifax to the eve of his death behind Germany's lines. Nor is it a philosopher's diary, but the blunt journal of a rather tough, inarticulate "war bird." He "laughs off" the emotion stirred in him by a full moon at sea, by guessing...