Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four-wheel drive car. The sprawling factories of Four Wheel Drive Auto Co. now employ almost a fourth of Clintonville's 3,500 residents, but not Otto Zachow. Last week, when "The Drive" got permission to list its stock on the Chicago Stock Exchange, Otto Zachow, grey and grim at 75, was still toiling in his brick smithy...
...father was Jewish, enters the Mosque of Omar, on the site of the Temple in Jerusalem. Three weeks before, Reeves's wife had died in Egypt. A sympathetic friend dragged him on a painful tour of the Holy Land - painful because Reeves's grief deepened in the grim and melancholy country and because he felt one of his rare epileptic attacks coming on. As he entered the Temple he felt dizzy, leaned on a pillar for support, realized he was fainting and looked at his watch. It was 23 minutes to six. That incident takes place on page...
Writes Mr. Steele, who was in Nanking when the Japanese captured it and has been trying to get out the grim details ever since: "All [the Chinese] knew that to be found in possession of a uniform or a gun meant death. Rifles were broken up and thrown into piles to be burned. The streets were strewn with discarded uniforms and munitions...
Though each year 700 new convicts arrive at Devil's Island, at year's end death and desertion account for about 700 missing. Thus the convict population remains constant at about 3,500. Dry Guillotine illustrates these grim statistics in the making, grinds on with an almost casual description of diseases, guillotinings, tortures, feuds, corruption. In the end a kind of tranquillity creeps into Belbenoit's account...
Leslie Banks is manly, earnest, and warm as the advocate of democracy. Theodore Newton is as grim, as honest, and as frigid as the role of the communist demands. Claudia Morgan is attractive and uneasy, and whether the uneasiness is in the actress or the character, it all contributes to the proper dramatic effect. A prominent background stands behind the picture of these fighters in the form of Alexander Woolcott, who as a cynical marriage broker contributes to the play what humor it has. Since the ill-fated girl is one of his proteges, she relapses at the end into...