Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...athletic fund. When his 40 employes sat down, President Louis N. Kapp of Chicago's Comet Model Airplane Co. got out his fiddle, made it a party. In many cases the Sit-Down was a craze like marathon dancing or miniature golf. But it was also a grim and growing Problem, which Congress last week found itself unable longer to ignore...
...there was anything fishy about the "residence" of Mrs. Simpson at Ipswich- which was of only a few days duration- that is, if she was really a resident of London and had just skipped out into the country in an effort to dodge reporters, then that tiny but grim legal point could make the whole divorce fishy and perhaps void...
...many frills showing as burlesque girls reveal in the early stages of the strip tease, vaseline-haired youths with bell-bottomed trousers, varsity sweaters and ukuleles. The drawings made Held famous. In 1928 he became a writer. As was to be expected, the titles of his books were Grim Youth, Frenetic and Johnny, Women Are Necessary, and the like...
...Grim Warning...
...grim warning to future offenders, the following terse announcement has been pasted as a book-plate in all the volumes which have since been recovered: "This book was stolen from the Harvard Library. It was later recovered. The thief was sentenced to two years at hard labor...