Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...below the rooms at Abbeville that serve as county jail, were awakened by a great racket outside. Before they could get up to investigate, a mob of 50 armed farmers burst in, ordered them to stay where they were. As sheriff and jailer sat abed looking sleepy-eyed into grim Henry County faces, part of the mob marched upstairs, broke into the jail. Going straight to the bullpen occupied by six cowering blackamoors, they broke into it with a crowbar. From it they dragged strapping 18-year-old Wes Johnson, itinerant Henry County farm laborer, who had been arrested...
Tokyo was tense last week with citizens in ignorance of behind-the-scenes doings in the grim Oriental tug-of-war be tween Army and Party leaders which upset the Hirota Cabinet (TIME, Feb.1...
...Ministers do not pull with the Cabinet, and the Hirota Cabinet resigned. This week Emperor Hirohito, after conferring with Prince Saionji, last of the Emperor's hereditary advisers, called upon Kazushige Ugaki, retired Army General and onetime Governor-General of Korea, to form a new Cabinet. Preceding this grim political struggle in Tokyo was a sudden and at first mysterious halting of exchange transactions which tied up millions of yen in Tokyo and slowed up business with Japan all over the world for some 13 days. The London market had comparatively little difficulty in liquidating" its yen contracts...
From questionnaires sent out to his classmates, Author Tunis learned that most of Harvard 1911 read no books, boast no intellectual diversions, live generally mediocre lives. By a "personal, house-to-house canvass" Classmate Benchley collected a grim set of 1912 confessions: "I have three children, all of whom look like me. "I have no children, all of them Chinese. (It is only fair to state that this came from a Chinese classmate.) "I have two daughters, one of whom thinks I went to Colgate and the other of whom goes around with a Princeton man. "The only date...
...famed play about Dublin's Easter rebellion in 1916. As the prize exhibit in the repertoire of the Abbey Players, The Plough and the Stars long ago achieved the rating of a contemporary classic. Its grimy and discursive picture of Dublin life, as background for the grim story of its principals, made it a contemptuous portrait, almost a definition of Ireland before the Free State. The current version of The Plough and the Stars-in which Director John Ford was assisted by Arthur Shields of the Abbey Theatre and in which five members of the Abbey Theatre make their...