Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were available, the important point is the rapidity with which it has been lowered with the passing of each decade. Twenty years before the turn of the century, the Harvard athlete in comparison with the average non-college man was a thirteen to ten bet to succumb to the grim reaper before the great mass of people not engaged in strenuous competition; it is now a four to five proposition that he will not attain greater longevity than the other...
Into a much-disputed Senate seat-front row on the aisle-he gingerly lowered himself. On his florid face was a grim grin. He was sitting, if not "seated.'' in the Senate...
...There is hardly a scene in this that is not well photographed and Ronald Coleman and Ann Harding act as well as you would expect. Unfortunately, the charm that the director has taken such pains to put into Condemned is wasted because it is inappropriate. Proper picturization of the grim penal colony on Devil's Island* calls for another quality than charm. This bleak little story about a criminal who fell in love with the abused wife of the prison warden could have been made credible only by thoughtful, undecorative realism. Best shot: Louis Wolheim, the toughest...
...Marquis is an ex-colyumist who has taken to writing "seriously." But he is still enough of the colyumist to feel that he should sugar the pill. In this book of short stories, the grim alternates with the comic strip, the eerie with the whimsical. Among the exhibits: a strong silent farmer overhears the hired man seducing his wife; Tim O'Meara tells his sons how his great diplomatic ancestor tickled the fancies of Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary; the Old Soak exudes a tale of spiritual wickedness and liquor in high places; the powerful Katinka in a circus...
...pummeled. Taylor helped. When he was 16 he put on a cowboy's costume and strutted to a dance. The girls were nicer than Big Maude's. He began to dream and want money. He told his mother what he had heard of Wall Street. She looked grim, so he ran away to Minneapolis...