Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young boys, one eleven, one twelve, whose genius for violin playing makes them a joy to their Russian teacher. Both are to enter a nation-wide musical competition, but the elder boy arouses the ire of the professor through a prank and is banished from the studio. In a grim and gloomy mood at his misfortune, he composes an original cadenza to Beethoven's concerto which is such a masterpiece that when his younger pal plays it in the competition finals, both are justly acclaimed as the coming miracle men of music...
...waited day after day for General Franco's main body on the other side of the Manzanares River to come to their aid. General José Miaja, Leftist commander in central Spain, by loudspeakers ordered the trapped Rightists to surrender or be annihilated. They received the ultimatum with grim defiance, and by week's end were still holding their ground, besieged within a siege...
...morbid depression which was the result of the Great War came a torrent of cynical and hopeless literature. The theater was beseiged with it, and even today the relies of that grim period linger on in all the arts. Little of this cynicism will be "noted or long remembered" except as something which typified the Twenties. But a few works stand out as having truly lasting qualities. One of these is Heinz Liepmann's "Nights of an Old Child" which has been translated from its original German by A. Lynton Hudson...
...Hurried feet; turning wheels; buildings grim and high...
Coach Samborski of the Freshman baseball squad clothed himself in the vestments of the Grim Reaper again yesterday in announcing the men he will take on the spring trip. Those who will not make the trip are not to consider themselves as cut and are expected to report for practice as usual...