Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father become the most powerful figure in Germany. He lived to see his father die less than a year and a half ago. (TIME Apr. 21, 1924). Today Dr. Edmund Hugo Stinnes, eldest son of Hugo, looks out from under his father's black brows, seeing the future grim and desolate, and his face blanches...
Brave days are still remembered in that house. Along its corridors goes Cosima Wagner, his widow-a grim, gaunt woman with the eyes of a sick eagle and the mouth of a field marshal; up and down she parades, while her petticoat rustles. The whisper of memories, ludicrous, pathetic, stirs to the swish of the old woman's skirt along the empty hall. ... A shaggy little man contorted over the piano, begging his wife to walk up and down the room because he "so loves the rustle of silk. ..." A swollen little man, throned among his friends, shouting...
...minute from such winks, nods. Then the company settled down to serious bidding. A representative of Governor Fuller of Massachusetts paid $35,000 (the highest price of the day) for a small, irridescent canvas: Vigilio: A Boat With Golden Sails, bought five other pictures for the Governor's grim home in Maiden. Little paintings that Sargent had done when he was studying ?Venetian scenes, casual landscapes, watercolors ? brought thousands of pounds; $23,000 for a diminutive canal scene, $11,000 for a picture of the Doge's palace; $4,300 for Man Seated by a Stream, "undoubtedly...
...Grant's grim assertion: "We will fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer...
...Moroccan Foot. In the pristine pride of its advent to power, the Directory was firmly convinced that it could batter the turbulent Riffs into submission. Consequently, it handled the statesmen and politicians in cavalier fashion, refusing haughtily all offers of help. "We shall meet again in Morocco," was the grim retort of ex-Premier Count Romanones, the Liberal leader. Subsequent events thoroughly disillusioned General Rivera and his colleagues. The Riffs proved stronger than was supposed; but General Rivera is at least an able soldier and his strategy was masterful. For months, he worked out a plan; and then the world...