Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...succeeded by Major General Charles P. Summerall, eight years his junior, ruddy, stocky, a bit grim, a man who through a large part of his career has followed in General Bullard's footsteps, being given post after post as General Bullard relinquished...
WHITE CARGO? This grim little drama of a man's decay among the black brothers of Africa has been running longer than almost anything else in town...
...years been as well known as any contemporary artist on the Continent. Oddly enough, his work has never before reached the U.S. Its arrival has caused no little talk, for Mestrovic is an individualist of power. His themes are highly dramatic?heroic figures, gaining in a sort of grim majesty what they lose in intimacy and, occasionally, in essential nobility. Mestrovic's life is interesting in connection with his art. Born of Croatian parents?farming peasants? as a boy he wandered the fields, tending sheep, carving in wood. The long hours alone with his fleecy flock did much to develop...
...Hard grim faces . . . abnormally long noses...
...Manhattan, grim men from Dartmouth and Cornell grappled at the Polo Grounds. Finding the Cornell line muscular, Dartmouth swept the ends, peppered 31 passes. Cornell stuck to her plugging game. The upshot was 27 to 14. Dartmouth's first success in four years against the dwellers "on the gray rock height...