Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began on trips between Egypt and England during his boyhood, on one of which he was wrecked off Malaga. Between the ages of 23 and 26, while writing ads, peddling verse and carpets, he wrote several novels and biographies, prefers not to be reminded of them. Payment Deferred, his grim study in murder, was a success on the stage and screen (it started Charles Laughton on his career), but did not sell well as a book. The Gun, an adventure story of the Peninsular War, and The African Queen, a story of a virgin and a Cockney on an African...
...amazingly daring choice of plot in these days of Hays, "Wuthering Heights" is unusually good. Even with Emily Bronte's subtle interweaving of incest here reduced to grim hints that flicker like summer lightning from afar, the film has caught that quality in the story that surpasses time or place. Tragedy, stark as the Yorkshire moors that are its scene, is the theme of "Wuthering Heights"; and not a punch has been pulled in Goldwyn's cinema version of this dank offshoot of nineteenth-century Romanticism. Especially convincing in the early scenes, Merle Oberon and Lawrence Olivier run the full...
...Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh arrived in Manhattan on the Aquitania, refused to tell the press why he had come home, promised to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee this week. Grim in public, Col. Lindbergh was smiling among friends when a newscameraman pushed into his cabin to snap...
...Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia Record reporter, David Greendrug Wittels, recently toured the schools of eight coal counties, returned with a grim tale. With mines shut down and coal operators owing millions in local taxes (Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Corp. alone owes $3,000,000), about one-fourth of the school districts could not pay their teachers. Some 6,000 teachers all told had received no pay for one to ten months. Hundreds were on relief. To support their families, others worked after school hours as undertakers, night watchmen, store clerks, life-insurance salesmen, coal bootleggers...
...World Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis: a 2 min. and 20 sec. fight in defense of his title; knocking out grim, 36-year-old Jack Roper, a Hollywood electrician who was considered a boxing has-been ten years ago; before 25,000 fight fans; at Wrigley Field, Los Angeles. Challenger Roper, 12-to-1 underdog, admitting it was the first break he ever got, received 10% of the nearly $100,000 gate...