Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four pleas and plans laid before four Interstate Commerce Commissioners last week by truckmen and railroaders sounded as if the U. S. railroad and trucking industries were either getting ready for a great consolidation feast or a grim competitive fight...
...roaring torpedoes, is the essence of "Thunder in the East", a picture based on Claude Farere's "The Battle" and set in the Russo-Japanese War. Merle Oberon achieves a slightly more Levantine slant to her eyebrows than Charles Boyer, but both of them succeed eminently in depicting the grim subservience to authority husband for one and country for the other that is the essence of this film. Their performances in this production, we are told, gave them their introduction to Hollywood...
...what they might be. Russian ships may sink when hit, but the Japanese ships, where the camera as are set up, only get a little smoky. There is little of the twisted steel and none of the mangled corpses that give the novel its grim horror...
...throughout the Irish Free State who were in need of a job, he saw to it that dozens of them were able to make their way across St. George's Channel to enlist in the British Navy. In many a Dublin back room, in many a country pub, grim-faced young Irish republicans vowed to get even with Admiral Somerville...
...picture of which Doris Lee is fondest is The Runaway, showing a girl in a streaming yellow dress gripping the mane of a bolting horse. The Haunted House is a dilapidated structure, surrounded by grim and groping trees, with all the windows on the third floor boarded up except one from which a wildly gesticulating woman is leaning. One of the best is The Widow, an Amazonian figure with feet planted wide apart, grasping the bridles of two snorting, dancing horses. There is one nude, a pert, heavy-legged girl with fruity lips, combing a mop of chocolate-colored hair...