Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youngest son, Gonzalo, in a motor accident. Said he: "I am in deepest mourning over the events in Spain." Savage Sieges. Main fighting of the week was a series of attacks by General Mola in efforts to dislodge Government forces from Irun and San Sebastian, and the grim advance toward Madrid of Generalissimo Franco's columns of Spanish Foreign Legionnaires and Moors, but the most desperate and cruel conflicts were at Badajoz, besieged by the Revolution, and at Government-besieged Oviedo, where in 1926 Generalissimo Franco was married...
...jacketed S. S. Guards and thrust an autograph book into his hands. Obligingly Herr Hitler signed. Suddenly the crowd of 18,000 gasped as Mrs. de Vries appeared to grapple with the Realmleader once, twice, thrice, before she got her arms around his neck and soundly kissed him. Neither grim old Feldmarschall August von Mackensen, who was sitting on Adolf Hitler's right, nor Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick, who was on his left, moved a muscle to prevent what, for all they knew, might have been an attack on the Realmleader. As apple-cheeked S. S. Guards...
Along the dusty roads of Lusitania Spanish peasants last week saw a sight that white men had not seen in 450 years: Moorish tribesmen, bearded and burnoosed, swinging their long brass-mounted rifles on the way to fight in Spain. News of the march caused grim chuckles to a ginger-bearded fat gentleman on the Island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. Abdel Krim, Rif chieftain who mocked the armies of Spain for six years until French intervention in 1925 brought about his defeat & exile, knew last week that his own Rif tribesmen were being rearmed by the very officers...
...answer to these grim forebodings, rain fell on South Dakota this week and the Department of Agriculture pointed out that farmers' cash income for the first six months of 1936 was $335,000,000 higher than for the same period in 1935. Cheerily declared five Midwest farm journals in The Agricultural Outlook: "Past experience shows that drought does not necessarily curtail farm income when consumer buying power and general economic conditions are improving...
...gratitude by searching out another lame dog for the same treatment. A Kind Boy freed his caged bird; a Cruel Boy pulled the legs from flies. A Chimney Sweep, coming upon a gold watch, manfully overcame temptation, was rewarded when his employer provided him with an education. Only grim note in this moral feast was the Tease, who frightened a playmate into insanity...