Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Picks up the Oddments and Remainders of Life Ever since I read Of Human Bondage I have wanted to meet W. Somerset Maugham. Here is a man with bitter truth in his work, with brilliance in his execution, with a sense of grim tragedy and deep irony. Now he is in Manhattan rehearsing a new play. He seldom stops long anywhere. He travels constantly, seeking out the bizarre places of the world, studying people and customs, picking up stray bits of character, strange events, and filling his notebooks generously with them...
...years (her first book, The Greater Inclination, was published in 1899). Most of her novels, which include The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, The Glimpses of the Moon, deal with the so-called upper classes at home or abroad, but her masterpiece, Ethan Frome, is a grim little tragedy of character laid in a New England village. For a number of years she has resided in France. She is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...
...Still another man who ought to have been a Republican, but was not, "was the driver of the horse vehicle that took us out to the vast and over-ornate Church-Monastery of San Jerorymos at Belem. Passing a large, grim building, he said: 'The palace of the President of the Republic, once the Royal Palace.' 'Are you glad of the change?' we asked. 'I am not, he said quite positively...
...with his two boys, has written, by and large, over 100 plays. Many of them have been melodramatic thrillers in which the actors tore the scenery and heroes flung themselves valiantly before hissing villains. Mr Davis has now chosen to become a realist. Two seasons ago he wrote a grim drama called The Detour and was canonized by the critics. Last year his Icebound, a genuinely human picture of his native Maine folks, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His place among American dramatists is therefore assured, along with Eugene O'Neill's. I like the plays of Owen...
ICEBOUND - The Pulitzer prize play, concerning one of those grim New England families whose members spend their lives annoying each other. Honest and well acted...