Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slim, sandy-haired Lawyer Douglas has a genial grin which twists itself into grim seriousness with disconcerting rapidity. He married a colleague of his high-school teaching days in Yakima, Wash., is careless in dress, likes bridge and the cinema...
...Dame Ethel Smyth was commonplace noise. Delius was represented by a sensitive, finely spun dance from Koanga, a delicate serenade from Hassan. Vaughan Williams' London Symphony has seldom been made so eloquent, with its suggestion of the ever-rolling Thames, the gay street scenes leading up to a grim hunger march, the solemn, chimes of Big Ben. After Elgar's rollicking Cockaigne overture there were cheers for Sir Thomas, who suddenly appeared as unconcerned as when he made his entrance...
These etchings are as accurate a representation of the ghastly havoc of war as one could wish to see, for they are almost photographic in their realism and have a brutal treatment which spares nothing, no matter how grim or repulsive. His "Wounded Man in Retreat" shows the head of a soldier, a great wound in his forehead from which the blood drips about his eyes, with an intensity of fright and pain in his expression which could not well be duplicated. The bulging, staring eyes, the dirty, straggly beard and disheveled hair, the open, gaping mouth, all give force...
...with an amazing indifference and nonchalance before a savage looking officer who has evidently done his best to call them to attention. They are of all sizes and shapes, and their ragged uniforms either hang off them limply or are far too small. But even this humor has a grim side, for the faces of the soldiers plainly show evidence of their privations and sufferings...
...grim Premier Laval, at bay last week on his front bench, scores of Deputies screamed "Resign! Resign!" Hysteria mounted until a reference to "my country" by the Premier subjected him to a torrent of demands that he speak instead of "our country." This he thereafter did with evident galling bitterness of soul. In their element were the forces of French antiFascism, led by millionaire Socialist Leon Blum. "Mr. Premier' he crushingly observed, "I am surprised, nay I am amazed, to see that you are still 'Mr. Premier.' There are some mistakes which a public man does...