Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country-club, fairly well-to-do crowds similar to those Fitzgerald wrote about, he presents them as much less tender, much more bitter, much more worried about money, casually frank in their acceptance of the more brutal realities of sexual experiences. And their stories he finds, almost without exception, grim...
...grim part of the U. S. songwriting industry has long been the swift jump to record great tragedies and the eager wait for the profits therefrom. A catalog of such news songs would include: The Wreck of the Old 97, The Death of Floyd Collins, The Hall-Mills Case, Little Marion Parker, The Wreck of the Shenandoah, The Sinking of the Vestris. Last month, day after Will Rogers and Wiley Post crashed in Alaska, Songwriter Freddie Rose (Red Hot Mamma) whipped out pieces on that disaster, passed them on to Ray Whitley, a onetime rancher who has a nasal voice...
...role as the offspring of the romance of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. They knew Lady Paget, friend of Queen Victoria, theosophist who made her own shoes and who predicted the World War and the Russian Revolution. They entertained Duse, who appeared with a genius in tow, a grim, self-assured, masculine-appearing girl who immediately began chasing her hostess all over the house and garden. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas appeared, as well as Gordon Craig and a host of others less eminent but no less vital, most of them distinguished by a love of art and sultry...
...GREEN CORN REBELLION?William Cunningham?Vanguard ($2). Grim and unusual novel based on a tragically futile uprising of Oklahoma farmers in 1917. written in a manner reminiscent of the work of Erskine Caldwell...
...savage Boer War and much strife thereafter have made Premier General James Barry Munnik Hertzog sad-faced and careworn. To a caucus of his United Party at Oudtshoorn last week the droop-whiskered veteran said with grim conviction...