Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year of rehearsals, threaded between sewing hours, to get Pins and Needles in shape. Staged in a remodeled Manhattan cinema house, with an amateur cast and two grand pianos for orchestra, its rollicking satire made critics agree that I. L. G. W. U. members were class-conscious but not grim about it, that their show was funnier and faster than many a Broadway revue...
Heroes & Beasts of Spain contains nine grim stories comparable in their nihilism and graphic power to Ambrose Bierce's tales of the U. S. Civil War. It is a harsh, unsparing book. The fascists who crowd its pages are brutal, the revolutionists fanatical, the peasants stupid, the intellectuals timidly ineffectual or suicidally brave. Writing with deceptive simplicity, sometimes introducing real people like Andre Malraux, Nogales occasionally hits a strange note of lyric violence: "In the morning light a bomb thrown from an airplane leaves behind a pretty, luminous wake. The tuning fork of space vibrates on being struck...
...unionism created by the new C. I. O. unions settled by subcommittees before admission. Since this point would seem to be open to horse trading, the more optimistic lieutenants in both C. I. O. and A. F. of L. remained cheerful. But the two commanders quit their last meeting grim and glum, merely announcing that they would report back-without recommendations-to their respective negotiating committees when they reassembled December 21. "Is it the status quo ante?" Mr. Lewis was asked-meaning war. "That would be a fair analysis," he replied stepping into the elevator...
...Bank of England are no more fixed institutions than the London Times. But last week the Times moved. Funereal Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain punched a shiny newspaper press button, formally opened a spick & span Times printing annex which precedes the re-placement of the whole group of grim historic buildings around dingy Printing House Square, a block from the sluggish Thames in "the City...
Conquerors of the Arctic (filmed by Mark Troyanovsky;* released by Amkino) films the conquest of the North Pole last May (TIME, May 31) by airmen and scientists of the Soviet Union. It follows the grim fight of determined men against howling Arctic weather, flies with them via Rudolf Island to the Pole itself, recording the weird tracery of the shifting ice pack as it appears from the air. At the Pole it shows the comrades jubilant, efficient, comfortable. They brush teeth, sluice bearded faces in the angled brightness of the Arctic sun, build an igloo settlement complete with electric lights...