Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Jimmy Walker turned on the radio audience the personality that once warmed the Board of Estimate. Over Station WMCA (Manhattan), on an hour of airtime donated by the Modern Industrial Bank, he took a microphone, a troupe of guest stars to Manhattan's grim Bellevue Hospital, did the first of 13 broadcasts called Jimmy Walker's Visiting Hour. His itinerary for the series includes other hospitals, an old ladies' home, many another haven for shut-ins. His job involves ad libbing a show which is half benefit, half heartstring jerker. Last week he interviewed patients...
...Glory, an intense story of a woman missionary in Africa, from the snug purview of his London suburb. Although he was only eleven when the Armistice was signed, The Unforgotten Prisoner was an apparently first-hand account of English and German War victims. And he wrote Shining Scabbard, a grim novel of French family life, with no closer acquaintance with France than French literature...
...cause they could fight for. If they lived, he insisted, their writing would be better for the experience gained in the fight; if they died, their deaths would make more living documents than anything they could write if they remained in ivory towers. But it is doubtful if this grim invitation had as much influence on them as Man's Hope will have. Whether the life of action would benefit all writers, there is no doubt that it has inspired Malraux, has given him a subject, a passion in expressing it, an imaginative intensity unmatched by any novelist...
...have entered upon a grim winter of discontent," Professor Laski said. "The power of reason to make itself heard is of necessity a declining power. I know of now case where a threatened class has abdicated from power...
...attempt to break the morale of the Reds. For the first time in Soviet photoplay, justice has been done to their stalwart opponents, and the scene of the psychological charge, with White troops marching stoically, awesomely to their death, is typical of the Russian mind and its grim realism...