Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
ICEBOUND ? Grim New England and grasping relatives make a powerful play, relieved only by one admirable character and a, reforming reprobate...
...ICEBOUND?Grim New England and grasping relatives make a powerful play, relieved only by one admirable character and a reforming reprobate...
...addition to two quotations from poems, the opinion closes with such moral observations as: " Though justice sometimes treads with leaden feet, if need be she strikes with an iron hand. Verily, the wages of sin are death and sin pays its wages"; as well as such grim humor as: " There is no error appearing in the record, except the great error of the defendant in murdering his wife...
Behind the general's characteristic picturesqueness of language lies a grim purpose. He plans to build up respect for the law and the Constitution, to combat all influences which breed class or religious discrimination, and to restore the individualism which once marked the American, but which has been so largely swallowed up by unions, vast industries, and "collective bargaining." Again General Dawes has tackled a man-sized...