Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...covered the "monkey trial" of John Thomas Scopes at Dayton, Tenn. in 1925 feels that the sudden death of William Jennings Bryan in that little town was in large part due to the forensic drubbing he received from the satanic tongue of Clarence Darrow. At one point the grim old lawyer said: "The Bible says every living thing that was not taken on the Ark with Noah was drowned in the flood. Do you believe that Mr. Bryan...
...mixing fury and farce Director Whale imperils Author Remarque's poignant theme, but the screen play possesses intense, impressive street scenes. And for a few moments The Road Back illumines a grim War-wrecked civilization, lighting up in a final flash the reawakening of German military mania...
...northern shoulder of San Marina Ridge swept the hand-to-hand fighting. Five flights of German or Italian-built bombers poured death onto the hillsides. Four battalions of Rightists held the Santa Maria heights. Basque defenders, punished beyond belief reformed for their last desperate resistance to the grim, tightening circle with which Generalissimo Francisco Franco hoped finally to extinguish the proud Basque boast which had stood for 700 years...
...Londoners sniffed a more devious trail leading to the sudden appearance of little Vicar Jardine at Monts last week. It is well known that one of the things that has most distressed Queen Mary in recent weeks has been the blunt refusal of grim Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury & Primate of All England, to allow any form of Church of England service at the wedding of her favorite son. It also happens that the bishop to whom Vicar Jardine owes allegiance is the Right Rev. Herbert Hensley Henson. Bishop of Durham, a noted liberal, longtime opponent of the Archbishop...
Called The Hunt, the Gropper picture is a sombre scene in deep yellows. Armed men and dogs are coursing through a scrubby thicket under a hill. The grim haste of the figures plainly implies that The Hunt's quarry is Man. Explained Artist Gropper: "I felt the irony of the hunt-the sportsman's equal pleasure in hunting game and hunting Negroes-and I decided to commit it to paint...