Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grim drama of the Carolina peasants catching...
...loved a woman who is unworthy of him; and though he realizes the utter "waste of the ointment," he still is carried on-the helpless victim of a mirage-by fleeting glimpses of the woman that she might be. The book is profoundly analytical, studied with something of the grim irony that pervades the Spoon River Anthology. Its philosophy shifts at times from an almost Rabelaisian turn to Oriental mysticism, and back again...
...orders of Defense Minister General Richard Mulcahy, surrounded a Dublin saloon, captured 40 officers, among whom was thought to be Maj.-Gen. Tobin. (General Tobin had led an army "mutiny" against General Mulcahy's plans for demobilization). But General Tobin was not among the officers captured. The grim laugh was on General Mulcahy and he resigned. His place was filled by Home Minister Kevin O'Higgins acting for President Cosgrave who is ill. The problem of demobilizing the Free State army, thereby ousting patriotic soldiers from their jobs, remained to be solved...
...other twelve, with various victims rising and stealing toward the door, till at length "the gaps in the audience made the room look like an old comb with half its teeth gone. The faithful remainder sat weary, wilted, their yawns breaking from control, their eyes turning glassy in their grim determination not to let them close in slumber?so stunned that when it was all over they didn't believe it. Friends had to prod them into rising and going home...
...peculiar fact that in most contests with Yale and Princeton the participants conduct themselves with all the grim silence of a life and death struggle while the excited spectators shout themselves hoarse. The Triangular debate tonight is a lone exception; and for once the spirit of keen competition and friendly rivalry can be expressed in appropriate words by the contestants themselves. While the audience must perforce wait until the end of the debate to register its complete approval or disapproval, the fact that the discussion centers upon the very vital problem of limitation of enrolment should make the decision fairly...