Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glared with ill-concealed hostility at the Fascist crowds surging in the street, and seemed to take an interest in a powerful motor car loaded with extra gasoline tins, which mysteriously appeared in an alley behind the hotel. When the police were informed of these doings, they responded with grim enigmatic smiles. Later they declared that the details of the plot had been known to Signer Mussolini for weeks; that Tito Zaniboni and General Capello had long been carefully shadowed...
Meanwhile, as a background for the social business of the evening -antics of begemmed matrons, observations of a grim explorer, dreams of a musician who is Vice President of the U.S.-the suave, characterless music dipped along, helped with all the resources of Rosa Raisa's opulent voice. Giorgio Polacco conducted...
...Sacramento, knowledge came to William M. Bowman, pioneer settler, that he like other men must die. He chose his pallbearers, dug a grave, lined it with cement, built a coffin, hewed a stone from native granite. That was 18 years ago when he was 73. Since the Grim Reaper continued to elude him, Mr. Bowman thought of a scheme. He built a flagpole over his grave and attached a flag and halyard. When he feels life departing, he will crawl into the coffin, raise the flag, and the people in the valley, knowing his signal, will climb the hill...
...first place, college too often does not mean to the student what it should: four years of preparation in life. "College is life," says the undergraduate; and in consequence, all the grim earnestness of life is not postponed until the real business of life is entered upon, but is seized at once. Success--the bright star of every ambitious man--already dazzles his eyes. Success he must have now. And since popular clamor is taken as the measure of success, it is no wonder a student is often misled to seek it in those paths which bring immediate recognition from...
Wadded warriors everywhere continued joyously the grim business of football...