Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next British move would have been made by Captain Anthony Eden at Geneva to have the League of Nations reject the terms as morally odious and commence bargaining Italy down. In Italian eyes this week, war with England became increasingly probable as Benito Mussolini suddenly appeared tired, grave and grim in contrast to his high spirits and buoyant good humor up to the very hour last week before Sir Samuel Hoare resigned. In Italian opinion the last and most outrageous straw was the appointment this week of "Tony" Eden as British Foreign Secretary (see below...
...grim joke to Chinese when Mr. Yin's hired Chinese mercenaries, escorted by Japanese troops, last week "captured" Tangku, port of Tientsin. If a renowned Chinese Marshal with a name the world knows had enjoyed the same success it would have been psychologically much greater. At week's end cables from Tientsin announced that the great "Scholar War Lord," Marshal Wu Pei-fu, had agreed to end eight years of erudite and pious seclusion in a Buddhist monastery to rule North China...
...picture is charged with unintentional humor. Richard Dix brings this out when that grim square jaw of his goes into action and he tells Madge Evans, blinded wife and bereaved mother, "Kiss me and tell me to go back into the tunnel." But everybody knows that the fault is in the script, and Mr. Dix, with years of variegated experience behind him, is easily the best...
...thrills. Long shadows on Seery walls emphasize the night-silence of Paramount's most modern-looking prison set. A dash through the billows to a waiting boat is completely Byronesque; the caged women are terrible in their frustration; practically every scene pertaining to the prison is wonderfully grim. In all, the picture is a stimulating bit of exercise for the emotions...
...there was, in the five years of depression 1930-34, a loss of $185,000 million. . . . This is stupendous and unparalleled, almost ungraspable in its immensity. . . . There never was economic waste on this gigantic scale." Lewis Corey holds that Fascism is no answer, but middle-class readers, visualizing the grim alternatives before them, are likely to experience despair, implore, like Milton's Satan as he stumbled toward the Pit: "Which way the neerest coast of darkness lyes...