Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approval on the work of the Philippine constitutional convention. But for all the merrymaking, an air of uneasiness and tension was marked by correspondents. "Doubts and forebodings" were noted among the attending masses by the New York Times's representative. The Herald Tribune's informant caught "a grim note of realism." It became known that 2,000 official admission tickets to the inaugural had mysteriously disappeared. The Philippine constabulary strongly suspected they had been filched by Sakdalistas, proletarian radicals who staged a bloody uprising few weeks before the Filipino people went to the polls last May to approve...
...sterling, sound City shares and Treasury bonds. Though dull as a whole, the campaign had provided just enough brickbats and pieces of lead pipe hurled by Britain's unique proletariat safely over Conservative candidates' heads. There were no bloody riots, best of all no facing of grim domestic issues like the Dole. With genial intuition and not too brazenly, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin caused the vote to be taken last week almost solely on a double question of foreign policy. Such was this double question that, however far the British voter might be from comprehending all its implications...
...monotony and superficiality of life as to give a cumulative effect of oppressive tedium. And a reader who followed the modern Pepys from 1911 to 1935 might be hard put to it to decide whether F. P. A.'s or Enid Bagnold's diary was the more grim...
...recently as 1928 he was hobnobbing in Moscow. Soviet gold financed the Chinese civil war which enabled General Chiang to set up the Nanking Government with himself as Dictator (TIME, April 25, 1927). This week prompt Japanese rage at Nanking's fresh talk of Russia erupted in grim remarks by Japanese militarists that at the first real sign of a Nanking switchback toward Moscow, soldiers of the Divine Emperor will drive a Japanese wedge of conquest between the Soviet Union and China by seizing border lands...
SOME AMERICAN PEOPLE - Erskine Caldwell-McBride ($2). A collection of reports on conditions throughout the U. S.. including the grim account of starvation in Georgia that created a State scandal, led to an independent investigation that confirmed Author Caldwell's more extreme charges (TIME, March...