Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light streaks widened in the east, the young Armenian climbed the scaffold, calmly told his grim-faced audience that "an insult motivated my crime." In an ironic gesture he willed the revolver he used to the U. S. Congress. Then, with hands strapped, hood over his eyes, he pierced the chill silence with a shout, "A bas Washington!" (Down with Washington!). The trap was sprung and his body plumped down through the opening, jerked to a sudden stop as the rope became taut...
...followers saluted him with uplifted right arms, sharp hails. Lights more benign singled out contemplative, poet-haired Brutus (Orson Welles), a reluctant, calmly-reasoning conspirator-an introspective idealist in a blue serge suit. No lean and hungry Cassius was Actor Martin Gabel, but a hunched, spleeny agitator, surrounded by grim adherents in modern mufti, slouch hats pluck'd about their ears...
...land artillery, supplemented by the big guns of Japanese warships. Infantry swarmed in only after the tanks had dashed back & forth through the streets of Tazang, "shooting up the town" to break Chinese morale. Behind the Japanese troops came Japanese armored cars and "mopping up squads." These found such grim evidence of stubborn resistance in the face of certain death as Chinese machine gunners who had handcuffed themselves to their guns and died at their posts...
...garb as simple as Hitler's or Stalin's, today appears in resplendent uniform with the spruce, German-trained troops of "Chiang's Own" on posters splashed widely about China (see cut). From Shanghai arrived last week the best picture yet of Chiang's grim, steel-helmeted, Prussian-disciplined regulars advancing recently at Lotien in the teeth of Japanese fire which sprawled some grotesquely as they fell (see cut). Old-style Chinese troops, such as still compose most of the country's forces, would have fled in floppy straw hats, perhaps throwing away their rifles...
Temporarily, however, grim, Orval Adams was free to return to his opposition to the New Deal. In his brief acceptance speech last week, President Adams announced as his prime objective: "We Must Do Our Part Toward Making All of the People Deficit Conscious...