Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman Fletcher looked over the map of the closing campaign, he could spot some hot but hopeless contests. To himself he must have admitted with a grim smile that the campaign, as a whole, was no contest...
...Congress in the first district of the Democratic State of Tennessee was Brazilla Carroll Reece, the Democratic National Committee sent him a cordial letter of endorsement. However, the first district is in the eastern, mountainous portion of the State; Candidate Reece happens to be a Republican Congressman. It was grim news to Mr. Fletcher. No blunders by his opponents could help him much...
...grim Reich Protestant Administration Building at Berlin last week pale, portly Reichsbischof Ludwig Müller trembled with excitement. "This day," he cried, "will be the glory and the crown of my career!" Two dozen brand new Nazi bishops who had hurried to Berlin at the beck of the man who made them clucked in sympathy. In their mystical German minds floated the belief that they were about to merge German Protestantism into a new unity...
...eloquent and grim...
...John's (Annapolis, Md.) a rebellious freshman mob started after a tyrannical sophomore, bent on dumping him in the Severn River. Suddenly they were confronted by a grim, menacing figure. "I suggest that you act like gentlemen," snapped St. John's new President Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, 51, onetime Federal Prohibition Administrator. Thereupon the freshmen melted away...