Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grim police sergeant, four detectives from the bomb squad, ten patrolmen swinging their shiny clubs, and a score of agitated friends met him in Manhattan. They escorted him through the Grand Central Terminal to his limousine, where a motorcycle corps took up the task of guarding his throat. Santa Lucia! If the Camorra wanted a man, they usually got him. And was Gigli, "the World's Greatest Tenor," to be sacrificed to the knife of some berserk Black Hander? So ran the talk in Gigli's apartment, where he was reunited to his wife and children...
Tall men, small men, round shiny men, grim dour men, all black-coated, all full-throated, 1,200 of them, gave a concert one evening last week in Manhattan. They represented 25 male choruses brought together by the Associated Glee Clubs of America* for a third annual concert. Two years ago 540 of them had sung together at Carnegie Hall; found Carnegie Hall too small for glee club enthusiasts. Last year 856 of them had sung at the Metropolitan Opera House; found it too small. Last week they met at the 71st Regiment Armory, 11,000 capacity; found...
...sense to understand what an impotent fool he really is. This gloomy abstraction is woven into a play about a wealthy farmer's family to which was born a human monstrosity.* After 23 years of confinement it escaped and became the symbol of a revolt of the beggars. A grim and horribly concluded love story runs somewhat amuck among the episodes of war and death...
Down Die Siegesallee in Berlin wander a few disconsolate Junkers. The grim old monuments recall the pomp and grandeur of the good old days, the good old days of blood and iron, gone--forever passed away...
Very late in the year appeared Thomas Hardy's "Human Show, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles," a book of poems which, though chiefly written late in his life show that this very great writer still has undiminished strength and beauty of expression, quiet wit and sometimes grim but always sympathetic outlook. John Masefield's "Trial of Jesus" is a dramatic rendering of the gospel narrative, using largely the biblical expressions in a manner which is decidedly interesting. As acted in Masefield's own small theatre it is said to have been moving and impressive. Cameron Rogers has compiled an interesting...