Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter of temper, not temperament, among writers, possibly only Theodore Dreiser betters him. That prognathous jaw is forever setting itself in grim determination that someone "shall be cut from ear to ear." He gets actively annoyed on the slightest provocation and his huge fists contract in his more or less consistent effort to control himself. He trembles on the brink of explosion most of the time. His indignation is righteous and his anger is of the inspiring kind that would end in a knockdown drag-out fight?if he hadn't spent 62 years learning to keep in leash...
...stout rope, marched up & down before the main entrance of the Kohler plant. Within 200 nonstriking employes were kept prisoner. No one was allowed to enter, no one to leave-except Mr. Kohler of Kohler. He drove up in one of his four Lincolns. strode, white-faced and grim-jawed, to the picket line, boldly lifted the pickets' rope and went in to a chorus of jeers...
...terrier-like Chief of Staff General Max Weygand and equally intense onetime Premier and present Minister Without Portfolio André Tardieu. About all that gallant Paris correspondents permitted themselves to say of the bridegroom, M. Antoine Rieder, was that he had as his witness the Military Governor of Paris, grim-browed General Henri Gouraud...
...keep clear of Tibet, but the holy men in Lhasa fumed at the desecration. Last winter the gods of Everest seemed angry. The Dalai Lama died. A catastrophic earthquake shook North India, killing thousands. When news of Everest's latest victim reached Lhasa last week, there was grim and pious chuckling...
...Madison Square Garden grinds. As a rule the riders bowl along in a good-humored cluster, sprint near the end of the run for the daily prize money. On the windy seacoasts they take turns riding on the windward side of the pack. One race was so swift and grim that after the finish a rider was reported to have bought a train ticket over the route so that he could inspect the scenery...