Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Class of '29", a grim catalogue of the trials and terrors awaiting today's, or perhaps yesterday's, college graduate, is being presented at the Repertory Theatre by the Federal Theatre, an arm of the Works Progress Administration...
...optimism is not running rampant in the locker rooms of Dillon Field House. The key-note of the atmosphere down there is rather a grim determination to turn in a better record than might be expected from them on paper. There are many experienced observers, however, who leave the practice field voicing the sentiment that at least one major opponent will leave Harvard Stadium this year with a far worse headache than it had bargained...
...Victory is ours!" Adopting the tactic of Lenin and Trotsky who made a point of telling their followers the worst during the Russian Revolution, Premier Largo Caballero and his Cabinet's strong man Air and Marine Minister Indalecio Prieto splashed out in Madrid papers the grim fact that in Madrid there were no more potatoes, fresh eggs or butter, scant meat or sugar and hardly any milk or olive oil. To these challenges the proletariat rose as 20,000 enlisted to fight as Red Militiamen-in a day and crowds kept milling around the Spanish Lenin's office...
...novels based on the lives of his Gorbols neighbors. The books that he submitted to Longmans, Green were considered unpublishable by that staid publishing firm, which hired H. Kingsley Long (Limey: an Englishman Joins the Gangs) to read the manuscripts and check on the accuracy of McArthur's grim accounts. The resulting collaboration plainly shows the joints and seams of each author's contribution, with McArthur presumably providing the harsh dialog, the accounts of Gorbols' uncivilized ways, with Long interspersing pompous, horrified comments as the story unwinds...
...most laymen, the routine activities of the staff of a big hospital are shrouded in sanitary mystery. The stories concerning them are usually grim, sometimes Rabelaisian, seldom sensible. Last week the sensible, matter-of-fact autobiographical chronicle of a onetime nurse gave a good, clear picture of the day-to-day work and training involved. Written by the wife of Psychiatrist Smith Ely Jelliffe, For Dear Life is an unpretentious book, makes up in honesty what it lacks in literary finish...