Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, a grim reminder that German-Czech relations are still on edge met every voter at the polls. Alongside the ballot boxes stood collection boxes for Czechoslovakia's defense fund. Although the balloting in the rest of the country went on to a patriotic jingle of hellers, in the Sudeten area the vote was sullen, clinkless...
Underdog Kainrath, Chicago team captain and a violinist in his spare time, did not let his townsmen down. With grim determination, he made the bantamweight match the most exciting of the evening. Ducking Sergo's wild swings and peppering him with well-timed punches and counterpunches, Chicago's Kainrath clearly won all three rounds...
...Commission has wearily begun all over again, this time under the guidance of Percy Tetlow. Last week, with data for new minima almost complete and with Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. of Arkansas filing the only suit now pending challenging the B. C. C.'s constitutionality, the Commission made grim-faced, 62-year-old Mr. Tetlow its official chairman. Coal miner's son, Percy Tetlow entered the mines himself at twelve, was a charter member of the United Mine Workers, began his career as a U. M. W. executive alongside William Green. When Percy Tetlow was fighting...
...concordat between Church & State-which the Nazis have violated so thoroughly that it is now a dead letter. Wrote Governor Murr: "Bishop Sproll does not recognize, it would seem, that Divine Providence has appointed Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist ideology to save our nation from the grim chaos of Bolshevism. Instead of bowing humbly to God's will, he was continually talking about persecution and martyrdom. I know that Bishop Sproll covets the halo of a martyr. This halo will not be denied him." Bishop Sproll kept...
...Pins and Needles," the Labor Stage musical review put on by the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, is a merry miscellany of comic sketches, music, and dance, properly shot through with social significance, but with no especially grim grinding of axes. Insofar as the show is a vehicle for any serious message from Labor, the latter declares its youthfulness and strength and its determination to get what's coming to it, but it is so free from vindictiveness and revolutionary urging that the spectators, no matter what their social complexion, applaud spontaneously without any secret twinges of alarm...