Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt's political hostility toward the electric power business there has always been a grim consistency. As early as 1928 when he first ran for Governor of New York, his dissatisfaction with the State's public service commission alarmed those whose fortunes are founded on the private sale of power & light. Power companies opposed his re-election in 1930, and, more strenuously, his election to the Presidency. At Portland, Ore., in the course of his 1932 campaign, Mr. Roosevelt spoke bitterly of "personal attacks," of a "systematic, subtle, deliberate and unprincipled campaign of lies and falsehoods" conducted...
...recent Yale graduate writes an article entitled "I Was A Rich Man's Son" in which he graphically points out the difficulties college men are having in finding positions after graduation. His grim recital of unpleasant experiences may serve to jolt some complacent students out of their shiftless lethargy...
...Eugene Schneider, the Krupps, together with maps, graphs, battle & atrocity shots. Since it is intended as entertainment, Dealers in Death lacks sincerity as propaganda. Since it contains large quantities of propaganda, it is weak in entertainment. Nonetheless, not even the hackneyed sensationalism of its method can completely conceal the grim power of the picture's meaning...
...child of a respectable middle-class home in a London suburb. From her blind and henpecked father she had inherited a secret strain that lifted her beyond her shoddy environment, made her seem like a changeling. On the annual family outing to the seaside, Shirin worshipped from afar the grim islet of Storn, was content never to have a closer view. But when Venn, Storn's spoiled young heir, rowed her over one day and presented her to his grandmother, she fell in love with the place. Years later, after a tragic but successful marriage, she met Venn again...
...choreography and danced the leading roles. For Hear Ye! Hear Ye!, a courtroom parody, she wrote her own scenario, had it approved by her lawyer-husband, Thomas Hart Fisher. Composer Aaron Copland wrote smart, satiric music but attention was more on the stage, set as a grim grey courtroom. A cabaret dancer (Ruth Page), a jealous chorus girl and a maniac are all accused of killing Page's dancing partner (Bentley Stone). While masked jurors look on stupidly, the crime is three times re-enacted as different witnesses saw it. Revolver shots ring out from the orchestra. The jury...