Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wolfe's first cinema assignment is to discover who, by means of a gun concealed in a golf club, with a trigger released by impact with the ball, killed jolly old Professor Barstow and why. By the time he succeeds, the picture has unraveled the grim and interwoven biographies of an irascible golf professional, an Argentine olive oil dealer, a lady idol worshipper and a young man with an Oedipus complex. It has also indicated that its hero, less dashing than Philo Vance and less whimsical than Charlie Chan, but more mercenary than either, will be a highly acceptable...
After those eloquent words, spoken with the grim determination of a born fighter, no one could doubt that John Lewis' ultimate aim was anything less audacious and revolutionary than to create in the U. S. a united industrial working class...
...spectators wildly cheered 15,000 marching members of the Croix de Feu, giving the Fascist salute derisively at police. Ensued a free fight in which cafe patrons hurled water syphons, tables & chairs at police who hurled them back. Significantly, when the Gardes Mobiles marched in to restore order, these grim troopers were cheered with cries of "France for the French!" while the police were booed as tainted with the Socialist, Communist and Jewish aura of the Popular Front...
When Hawthorne wrote his grim Glimpses of English Poverty he started a tradition for U. S. authors of travel books which has persisted ever since. Brooding, melancholy, suspicious of the claims of foreign patriots, Hawthorne found little to cheer him except the occasional kindness shown by slum children to children still smaller. Critic Edmund Wilson was writing in that classic, if somewhat astringent, mood when last month he offered his skeptical impressions of the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. in Travels in Two Democracies. For most of his long (412 pages) Two Worlds, Lester Cohen also adopts...
...kings it over two separate realms. The second is a subarctic island covered with glaciers and boiling volcanoes, vast lava beds, gravel deserts and eternal clouds of sand and pumice dust. This is Iceland, whose 115,000 proud citizens are chiefly crowded in the lowlying southwestern corner of their grim island. Iceland won home rule in 1874, independent sovereignty in 1918. To show Icelanders that he takes his job as King of Iceland dead seriously, King Christian learned some Icelandic. Last week, for the first time in six years, King Christian paid Iceland a royal visit...