Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rival delegations stayed at different hotels last week in Washington. But John Lewis insisted on seeing them together at his palatial new United Mine Workers headquarters. There he gave them a stiff six-hour talking to. Grim and tired, Leader Lewis emerged to announce that all parties would go to Capitol Hill next day to lobby for an important labor bill, an amendment to the Walsh-Healey Act making compliance with the Wagner Act a prerequisite for firms awarded Government contracts. After that, the factions were to reconvene at the Lewis headquarters...
...Alexander Woollcott, Playwright George S. Kaufman and Novelist John O'Hara by acting in the stage production of Holiday. In this version, as in the first cinema edition, the Stewart role-that of the hero's amiably light-headed crony-is played with whimsicality a shade less grim than usual by Edward Everett Horton. Omitting his own classic monologue on "How I Invented the Bottle," Screenwriter Stewart has substituted as the role's piece de resistance a lightly Leftish Punch & Judy show...
Died. Captain George W. Yardley, 58, master of the Dollar liner President Hoover; of complications from exposure and nervous strain in the six grim days of rescue and salvage after the President Hoover ran hard aground 18 miles off Formosa last December; in San Francisco...
Some 1,500 grim-faced prisoners in the Rightists' San Cristóbal fortress at Pamplona, 30 miles from the French border, suddenly attacked a few of their guards, connived with the others, and last week succeeded in executing a mass jailbreak. In a few days, posses of Rightist Civil Guards rounded up 600 fugitives, killed scores more in clashes in the dense thickets of the Navarre border territory. A few prisoners managed to escape to France and there revealed that many of those who took part in the escape were not Leftist prisoners of war but Rightists, members...
...Street (Gaumont British). Last cinema appearance in the U. S. of blonde British Cinemactress Anna Neagle was in the regal weeds of the Widow of Windsor. This time she sets out in Romany raiment beside a barrel organ, soon warbles her way up in the world. Far too grim and determined a gamine for this two-dimensional story, vaunted Actress Neagle succeeds largely in proving that even she can make...