Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first piece of the first batch listed above gives an acute analysis of the ways and woes of a charming hostess who endeavors to entertain some dozen heterogeneous people at once, and wins by being vague. The next is a grim one: a diagnostic study of a diagnostic man. It shows what happens when a psychiatrist has a love affair. The third snaps itself abruptly to the vaudeville stage and gives us Noel asking his lovely, amazingly gifted partner, Gertrude Lawrence, "Who was that woman I saw you with last night?" The versatility of the pair is so great that...
...contrast, most newspaper cartooning of the campaign has been dismally lacking in fun. For oldtime jest and jibe, most cartoonists have substituted grim seriousness, sullen partisanship. A charitable explanation is that the Roosevelt-Landon campaign has been a confused, bad-tempered one, and cartoonists have simply reflected the temper of their editors and readers...
...Miss Irene Mary Bewick Ward, M.P., a Conservative stateswoman accustomed to deliver to women's clubs in all parts of the world a lecture entitled Whether British Democracy Can Outlive European Dictatorship. Although she en joys the reputation of "always smiling," Miss Ward, M.P., for once looked grim after telling reporters: "I can assure you that I know absolutely nothing about this Mrs. Simpson, and I am telling you the truth when I tell you that I have never before heard her name mentioned in any conversation I have had-anywhere...
Last week, in the first volume of another series of novels, the O'Neill's were shown occupying the centre of the same grim stage that the Lonigans recently vacated. Although they are poorer than the Lonigans, they are much like them in temperament: a quarreling, short-tempered, superstitious crew, constantly fighting among themselves and lapsing into dreamy reveries, the men regularly going on the wagon and as regularly falling off, the women snarling at the children, cursing the men, slandering each other. Consequently, while A World I Never Made does not deepen or add perspective to James...
...symbol of the Jacobin cause, comes to life in these pages. Her dissolute husband, her lover Fernando, her nephew Lauriano, are specimens in the fine art of re-creating historical characters. The personal histories of this quartet, and that of Don Gerardo Baker, are fascinatingly unfolded against the grim pageant of Naples torn by civil strife...