Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England was a grim, stern place 250 years ago. Hard-faced captains and Governors tolerated no compromise among their followers and preachers sagely nodded while Salem witches screamed and shriveled. Occasionally some of these men, their wives or daughters were painted for a posterity which was quick to forget them. Last week in the Worcester Art Museum a collection of such portraits was put on show. Lent by many a learned institution or lately found in many a dusty New England attic, the pictures were a ghostly recollection of pomp and triviality in the late American...
...book, an anecdotal narrative of some of his experiences in Alabama, goes far toward bearing out his thesis. But Alabamians would have to be thin-skinned indeed to object to the tone of Author Carmer's remarks. Though he makes many an explicit criticism, points silently at some grim conclusions, he also tosses many a bouquet, with a grace that does credit to his hosts...
...contestants would not define the issue in such simple terms. The steelmasters set their jaws in grim determination against closed shop. Mike Tighe demanded "recognition" for his union and vehemently denied that he was asking for closed shop. In this difference there was room for compromise-except for one material circumstance: Mr. Tighe's subchiefs were on a rampage. While the steelmasters met in Manhattan and Mr. Tighe spent much of the week in Cleveland, a Rank & File Committee, composed of the heads of local Amalgamated lodges, were in Washington making life hot for General Johnson...
Fascist spotlights switched from the leader to the rafters. Grim Fascist squad leaders shinnied up the roof supports and led their blackshirts in a crawling advance along the beams. Since a fight in mid-air would mean scores of falling bodies, the audience leaped up in panic. Sir Oswald bellowed: "Black Shirts aloft-attention! I want no fighting under the roof...
Some foreigners saw a grim humor in the President's implication that debtors must stop extravagant expenditures for armaments if they want consideration from the U. S. The President drafted his message before he left Washington, turned it over to the State Department for expert combing. It was forwarded to him at his Manhattan home where he signed it immediately after his return from reviewing a U. S. fleet on which he is spending more money than any other U. S. President in peacetime...