Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Missionaries arriving from the interior told of bandit gangs raiding undefended villages in a spirit of grim carnival. In the formerly law-abiding province of Shantung, for example, the town of Wangchihpao was sacked and 1,000 Chinese killed. Many children whose parents had been murdered came to the bandits, begged mercy, food. Ogreish, the murderers amused themselves by seizing the legs and arms of the smaller children and literally tearing them to pieces. Older boys and girls were stripped, then flogged, or maimed, killed or set free at the whim of their captors...
...Prince Henry and Prince George. When the royal party stepped upon the quay, it was seen that the Duchess had donned with a reason her ensemble of silver grey shoes, stockings, custume and hat, relieved only by a bunch of violets. There, lolling upon the waves, lay the grim, dark grey Atlantic Fleet; but, in the centre, the Renown shone all resplendent in silver grey dress paint...
Bonfils had cunning, romantic descent, lust for power; he is strikingly handsome, though haggard after an illness, even today; his temper and resourcefulness in quarrel were speedily renowned. Yet it was never Bonfils, except as an exotic danger, who utterly captured the imagination of lonely sheep herders, grim miners, lusty ranchers and eager townsmen. It was Tammen. Bonfils had brains and intensity. H. H. Tammen had brains and charm. It was his creed that, if a man was going to be a faker, he must be a magnificent one. He kept his desk drawer full of paper money in small...
...from city to city in a mood half carnival, half belligerent. What important Detroiters were doing last week- besides conferring finally with engineers, designers, bodybuilders and advertising experts-was to make hotel reservations, dates with friends, memoranda of wives' shopping orders, etc., etc. Their big annual party and grim selling campaign, were about to begin...
...females in proportion to their so-called 'sex-appeal'; in a day when judges are known to order screens placed between the prisoner-at-the-bar and her jury, Mrs. Frances Hall, without any attempt, apparently, to clutch after youth or the allurements of her sex, sits grim as winter...