Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing if he lost. In Manhattan he lives at the Park Lane Hotel, but he prefers his farm in Virginia, where he likes to hunt the fox. Last June he went to the Republican convention in Cleveland as a Virginia delegate. Even if taxes had not looked so grim, President McConnell might have considered abandoning Mayflower. The profit motive has lost its appeal for him. "Just grew out of it," he says...
Upshot of this grim situation in the play was that Mio, learning the identity of the murderer through his conversation with Trock, was himself murdered by Trock's trigger men before he could take the truth outside the shadows of the bridge. The picture, inspired more, it appears, by valid dramatic logic than by the Hays organization edict that Justice always triumphs on the screen, arranges a totally different conclusion. In it, after he has killed Shadow and Garth, Trock is shot dead by one of his own henchmen. Mio, apparently doomed to die in the trap they have...
...acted in vaudeville in his father's greatest hit, "Count of Monte Cristo," reported on a Connecticut newspaper. Finally, 1914, a year before he left Harvard, he turned to play writing. His first plays were of the sea, the others have dealt with both countryside and swarming city all grim, sharp pieces except for Ah Wilderness, which did not lack sharpness. His themes and technique admit no confines...
...almost illegible longhand to Prof. Jim Weber Linn. Desciphering difficult under graduate handwriting is tiresome, but the professor read young Farrell's stuff with great interest. To the black haired Irish kid from Chicago's Blue Island Avenue, he gave encouragement, out of which ultimately came four grim, first-class novels of life on Chicago's South Side. The fourth, A World I Never Made, has just been published. The world James Farrell has lived in for 31 years is obviously one he had no hand in. He knew stinging poverty, quit college four years ago, worked...
...mind that she is losing something from life. This all sounds a trifle complicated, and Miss Boland gets "that way" after listening to Adolph Menjou, the author of "Marriage, the Living Death". All in all the hill is worthy of recommendation for all who find Cambridge a grim place these days...