Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since his fiancée died of a badly diagnosed appendicitis, stern Surgeon Forster (Akim Tamiroff) has lived for science, not for sentiment. His efforts to hew Dr. Beaven (John Howard) in his own grim image are upset when the younger physician meets exotic, black-banged, slitherish Audrey (Dorothy Lamour). An American brought up by Chinese, Audrey speaks English with a nursery-school singsong. Dr. Forster succeeds in breaking up their match in the interests of science, but he also breaks up Dr. Beaven, who sets out to hunt his Audrey among 450,000,000 warring Chinese...
With such diverting thoughts, the Wolfs prisoners did not complain of the tropic heat that turned their filthy prison into a fetid Turkish bath, nor of their grim diet, nor of the dhobie itch and typhus brought aboard by Japanese prisoners, nor even of scurvy, which began to rot them on the voyage home, through a hurricane that left the Wolf leaking 40 tons of water an hour, through the ice-jammed Arctic and the dreaded North Sea blockade. Eventually they felt for Captain Nerger the respectful gratitude due a hero who had saved their lives...
Bill Bingham did discontinue the payment of athletes for waiting on tables at the Varsity Club, but the present hours and return are hardly as grim as Egan portrays. During the season needy members of athletic squads wait on the training tables for one hour at lunch and dinner six days a week. In return for 12 hours of work (two hours per day), the waiters are given all their meals including breakfast free, gratis etc., or the equivalent of $10 worth of House food...
...periods that while Clare Boothe's hell-cats are desperately trying to get themselves out of marriage, Edith Wharton's bustled and be-snooded felines spend their time clawing their way in. The old maid, Bette Davis, never quite makes the grade, and the ensuing complications make grim and glorious fare...
...agreed that Scandinavia would try to keep out of World War I while trading to beat the band with all belligerents. Last week in Stockholm it was already clear that World War II is not going to be any picnic for neutrals, but faces them at the outset with grim threats to their independence. Getting right down to cases, Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko asked Swedish Foreign Minister Rickard J. Sandier, Danish Foreign Minister Peter Munch and Norwegian Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht what concrete assistance, if any, their countries were prepared to offer Finland in resisting the demands of Soviet...