Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grim tradition of European espionage, "Master Spy" Mme Lydia Stahl, 45, had kept her mouth shut during 16 months in jail and the three weeks of the trial. Last week she sobbed but said nothing when she got five years, almost escaped press notice...
...fact the only famed Grant Wood picture that was not to be seen there was the Daughters of the Revolution, an oblong panel of three grim-faced spectacled spinsters standing in front of a framed engraving of Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware. Since last January, it has been the property of Emanuel Goldenberg of Bucharest. Rumania, better known to the U. S.'public as Cinemactor Edward G. Robinson (The Whole Town's Talking). Patient Actor Robinson, who walked into the Ferargil Galleries and paid cash for it, was unable to enjoy his picture until last month...
...Grim days for Mr. Ickes were gay days for Dr. Tugwell. The Columbia economist's hair, greying when he went to Washington, has now turned definitely silver but the lines of care which go with such a change are strikingly missing from his handsome, young face. Last week the Tugwell eyes were shining more brightly than ever at the prospect of a golden opportunity...
...Secretary of Agriculture Wallace it was a grim jest. If ten tons of dust to the square mile goes scooting across the country in a March gale, what may not happen in July? Mr. Wallace decided that the danger of drought was greater than the danger of surplus. He issued an order: Farmers who had pledged themselves to reduce their 1935 Spring wheat planting 10% below normal were relieved of their pledge. More important, he ordered that some $30,000,000 which AAA had contracted to pay Spring wheat growers for reducing their acreage should still be paid, whether...
...every public square Berliners had indeed gathered joyfully, pointing skyward at the first German military escadrille to take the air officially since the Fatherland was beaten, exulting over & over "Those are our planes! Our planes!" Proudest of all was the grim old dowager Baroness von Richthofen, mother of Germany's late greatest war ace. To her wrote General Goring, Air Minister and Premier of Prussia...