Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GENTLEMEN FROM SAN FRANCISCO AND OTHER STORIES?I. A. Bunin?Seltzer ($1.50). The title story of this volume (translated from the Russian) relates the grim history of an American millionaire who has made his money and in company with his wife and daughter travels expensively all over the south of Europe. He has the best of service and accommodations; but the weather is always bad, and he doesn't find the expected enjoyment. At Capri he is stricken with mortal illness. At once the hotel manager loses his politeness, hustles the body into a cheap coffin, and it is carried...
...This blind resort to arms on the part of men seeking their rights will not bring forth results, but the spirit behind it will find some more effectual means and inevitably triumph. There is little about these grim miners that can be called ethical, but they are full of a practical reality. Some solution to this problem must be found--a problem now pressing in every corner of the nation, and seen in its most violent form in West Virginia. Some process of law must be devised whereby there may be an amicable settlement between capital and labor. There must...
...speculate on what Sam Adams would have to say at "town meeting" today, if he could return to Faneuil Hall to the celebration of his two-hundredth birthday. His remarks, it is safe to say, would be direct and would hit, what they were aiming at. Probably a grim chuckle, two or three pleasantries, and then a vigorous, powerful attack on what struck Adams as the outstanding abuse of the day in the town of Boston. Opinions may differ as to Adams' choice today, but there is no question that whatever he took up would be settled then and there...
...obvious; careful handling of the parts is essential to a good effect. As Peter, Miss Goad's voice is much against her, and her portrayal of the boy was not always sucessful. Mr. Charlton as Doctor Garret is too repressed he finds it so easy to look grim and sad that he frequently overdoes it. In "The End of the Bridge", the Boston Stock Company has got hold of a very difficult, though interesting, piece. All in all, they acquit themselves creditably, if no more...
...coming shell; there came to be no more need of stiffening nerves and unruly muscles under a relentless will to "stand the gaff" of the War three years ago. Three years. But today our generation is "fed-up" on War stories. There is no market for tales of the grim days of 'seventeen-'eighteen. Unless indeed the author have something startling, something sensational, something preening itself on what is wellnigh sacrilege. Then indeed the public buys. Then articles are written a guing, pro and con, the merits and demerits of the publication. Yet in most cases it is the facts...