Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dead colleague. But Congress was straining for adjournment by week's end, and the conventional amenities were postponed for nearly three hours by routine business. Then Massachusetts' Treadway arose to present a resolution of adjournment. "Mr. Speaker," cried he to Speaker Joseph Wellington Byrns, "again the Grim Reaper has visited this House...
Speaker Byrns appointed a committee of four to attend the funeral, banged his gavel for adjournment, went home to his suite at the Mayflower Hotel. Nine hours later the Grim Reaper paid another call, and lanky, bushy-browed, 66-year-old Joe Byrns lay dead of a cerebral hemorrhage, first Speaker in history to die while Congress was in session...
Down the centre aisle through the hushed House, escorted by Representatives O'Connor, Taylor and Snell, marched the sturdy, grim-lipped, white-suited Alabamian. A tactless Congressman started to applaud, was quickly shushed. Speaker Bankhead took his oath with shaking hand, head bowed to hide his tears...
Huge advertisements in all major Eastern railroad stations this week lured the public with announcements of drastic cuts in fares. None of the posters made mention of the fact that 23 major Eastern railroads were last week settling down to a grim court fight against the Interstate Commerce Commission's order which made the new fares necessary. All 23 meticulously obeyed the order but declared they would reinstate the old fares if the courts would permit. Of all Eastern roads, only the Baltimore & Ohio complied voluntarily, announced the cuts were permanent...
...past few years, the undergraduate addresses at Commencement have been rather futile. In the main, the harangues have been drab, the speakers practically unknown to their classmates, and the general tone that of a stilted secondary school valedictory address. The situation this year is peculiarly grim. The undergraduate chosen from the competition to deliver the annual address is unable to be at the exercises leaving the Commencement officials to search about for a budding Demosthenes...