Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind Commissioner Valentine's flow of angry words surged the pent-up wrath of 31 years of police experience. He joined New York City's force at the bottom in 1903, suffered one Tammany slight and setback after another for his persistence in going after politically influential crooks. Big, grim, tough, rigidly honest, he got his chance when the LaGuardia reform administration took office...
...Washington, Attorney General Cummings spluttered triumphantly to newshawks: "Our men got him! Our men got him!" Chief Edgar Hoover was grim. "Yes, we got the guy but he killed two of our men. It was two lives...
...acquaintance whom they see in the dining-hall, and even a wary glance of recognition is frowned upon. They must stand at strict attention whenever not actually engaged in serving or carrying off dishes. Any departure from the set regulations brings sharp rebuke from the waitress "captains"--grim females who roam the floor constantly searching for any sign of relaxation or happiness, and pounce with undisguised delight upon offenders. At breakfast the waiters often stand for thirty minutes without stirring, while a dread silence fills the dining-room and the captains prowl vigilantly, hopeful of detecting an unnatural movement...
...south. A lumbering ammunition train, supplied by Remington Arms Co. and E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., brought up the rear. At the head of the long column as it swung along through the misty morning rode General Butler with his high command. Straddling a charger was that grim, oldtime cavalryman, General Hugh Samuel Johnson. General Douglas MacArthur, who only a year before had been the Army's Chief of Staff, trotted jauntily beside him. Behind them clop-clopped three past commanders of the American Legion - Hanford MacNider, Louis Johnson and Henry Stevens. Between them and the first...
...loan. Last week, sipping grapejuice and fizz-water, Mexican friends of Dry Ambassador Daniels toasted a new era beginning Dec. 1, 1934, with the inauguration of His Excellency General Lázaro Cárdenas as the 45th President of the United States of Mexico. By an appropriate coincidence, grim General Cárdenas stands with genial Ambassador Daniels for grape juice and Prohibition...