Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than 200,000 conscripts who will soon swell to 500,000. Adolf Hitler, "Apotheosis of the Little Man," never rose above corporal's rank during the War and today lavishes unheard-of comforts on happy German soldiers. Crews of carpenters were busy last week replacing great, grim Prussian barrack rooms with small, snug squad rooms equipped with easy chairs, tables, cheerful curtains, hardwood floors and such lavish tiled lavatories as no other European army can boast...
...Although no subsequent political action can condone wrong deeds or remove the guilt of blood, history is replete with examples of men who have risen to power by employing stern, grim, wicked, even frightful methods, but who nevertheless, when their life is revealed as a whole, bave been regarded as great figures whose lives have enriched the story of mankind. So it may be with Hitler...
Number two is Conkle's comedy, "Minnie Field". Like all his plays it deals with the Middle West, its subject a wake, treated in humorous manner but ending on a grim note...
...particularly dejected young lady led to a protracted correspondence. More and more intimate the missives became. Photographs were exchanged. Through the long winter months the thing continued, and when the snow melted and trees began to send forth their fragrant greenery Cupid rasped his horny palms together in grim satisfaction. Hymen's gay preparations filled the balmy air. Now comes the insidious note into the happy melody, a curt note from the girl's father...
...Grim evidence of the determination of Ogaden authorities to risk everything on a climactic mass engagement was visible in the tortured labor of corps of ebony peasants-old men. women, boys and girls -sweating in a blistering sun to perfect the [Ethiopian] Army's last line of defense...