Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Death, some think, is a sort, of recitation-an "unseen" that you have been trying to spot through a somewhat rowdy study-hour. Whether you know anything or not, you have to stand up. Last week the grim Master of Headmasters called on Francis H. Tabor, head of St. Bernard's School, Manhattan...
When dirty weather gathers in this book, as it does continually, the seas thunder, spurt, hurl, burst, cascade, career and cannonade. Poops lurch, hatches groan, bulwarks drown, spars shiver, tumults surge, canvas flogs, human limpets cling to wreckage with bleeding nails, battered limbs, frozen hands, grim resolve. It is a fast-sailing tale of clipper days, stoutly and thoroughly rigged from stem to gudgeon, commanded by a cultured swashbuckler from Nova Scotia, a hammer-fisted, hell-bent "bluenose" skipper, with Nietzschean ethics, Vulcanic muscles, the passions of Poseidon, the luck of Lucifer. When his clipper Aphrodite goes down off Patagonia...
...another Morse, was second; one of the 16 did not return. -a Bellanca plane, piloted by Clarence Chamberlain, carrying one Lawrence Buranelli, passenger. It had tipped a telephone wire with a right wing, come crashing down into the backyard of a deserted shanty. Passenger Buranelli, crushed under the unrecognizable grim huddle of the motor, was killed. Pilot Chamberlain was injured...
...Tower of Lies. In any realistic cinema, a newborn child is referred to merely as "another mouth to feed." The mouth, in this grim reproduction of Swedish farm life, is a certain Goldie (Norma Shearer) who buys a farm for her parents with funds obtained from a dubious source. Miss Shearer is fair in both senses of the word; Lon Chaney is the dubious source...
...local chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union is not listed by actuaries as an especially dangerous occupation. Yet Mrs. C. B. Cook of Vinton, Ia., found it so. She became an active Prohibition crusader, aiding and abetting enforcement agents in every way. Then the grim train of events began. One Sunday evening returning home from services at the First Christian Church, she found her house defaced with fragments of more than a dozen putrescent eggs. Next day she had the egg stains removed and, undeterred, continued on her course. Last week, returning home one evening from...