Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Death is grim, but Thomas R. Marshall was never grim. If there was ever a baby born with a smile on its face, it must have been he. It was 71 years ago last March that his smile came into the world. Last week, it flickered out for the last time...
...WILD DUCK?One of Henrik Ibsen's grim contributions to the world's progress. Proves that idealism is a brutal boomerang...
...area, filled with poisonous fumes from the exploded pyroxylin bomb. Surgeons, soldiers and members of the Cabinet-except Minister of the Interior Rouseff and Minister of Justice Boloshersky (dead), Premier Tsankoff and War Minister Vulkoff (slightly injured)-rendered first aid to the victims. When the final accounting of the grim tragedy was made, more than 150 persons, including 20 women and 10 children, 12 generals, the Mayor of Sofia and his entire family were found dead; hundreds were injured...
Baseball has never been known as a perilous pursuit; seldom is the Grim Reaper seen, his scythe laid by, warming up with four bats. Yet, at the present time, twilight has fallen upon the Gods, managers have made mutterings to the effect that the state of affairs is baseball's Götterdämmerung. Babe Ruth, home run magnate, "attended by the sympathy of the Nation" and press, lay in Manhattan, stricken with cold, run-down condition, influenza, indigestion and a bump on the head. In Nashville, Tenn., visited with far less solicitude, Tyrus Cobb, "the greatest player...
...Garson lives in Pittsburgh; he paints his city. Painter Garson has listened to many factory whistles; he has seen, morning after morning, night after night, the black smoke from a thousand chimneys besmut the sky. The grim force that animates this activity of whistles, furnaces, chimneys, smoke awes and angers him; its meaning, if it has any, eludes, and he gropes for it o blazing, sultry canvases...