Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Survivors. But last week as the first stages of another crisis dominated men's minds, and bred grim forebodings of the future, the survivors of the last appeared more numerous and more meaningful than the casualties. Theoreticians of the movies in 1929, pondering the box office of Broadway Melody and wondering if the talkies were here to stay, could not have believed that 1938-39 would see the movies' greatest success-not a musical with an all-star cast, but an animated cartoon based on a German fairy tale, Snow White, in which dwarfs, gentle beasts, magic...
...that remained in Poland last week was aftermath: mopping up, repairs, the sorting of truth from falsehood. One truth reached Manhattan with a famed world traveler and free-lance photographer, Julien Bryan. That it was a truth no one could doubt, for Photographer Bryan had recorded it in grim celluloid and emulsion...
...that other war, reminisced these veterans, there was nothing at sea like Germany's raiders. They behaved far differently from submarines. The raiders' game was almost merry: a game of masquerade, chase, chivalry, a game with rules,-grim outlawry with a face of fun and even a little virtue. Take, for instance, the old Emden...
...back as ruthlessly was made equally clear when blockade-scared Berlin announced that armed merchantmen would be sunk without warning (see p. 34). There was good reason for Germany's retaliatory step, because Britain had already made gains in its economic offensive. Life in Germany was becoming increasingly grim. Items...
This is an unpleasant picture, with suicides, murders, and seductions in plenty. But its grim power is the very thing which makes it exceptional...