Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...based on the famous Dusseldorf murders of a few years ago, when a madman managed to kill eight children before he was apprehended, and a certain grim note is added to the picture by the knowledge that it is not a fictional account. The murderer is obviously a sexual pervert, a fact that is brought out beautifully and skillfully--who finds himself ruled by an insatiable desire to murder small children. In satisfying his passion he terrorizes the city: the police unable to find him, take to rounding up the underworld: whereupon gangland sets out to get the murderer...
Last week the Senate set out to demonstrate the full measure of its might and power. The galleries were filled with visitors to see the spectacle. As the roll was called the Senators strode in, grim and determined. Senator Hugo Black, the head of the committee investigating air mail contracts, sat in the front row. Other front seats were taken by other legal lights of the Senate-Lawyers King of Utah, McCarran of Nevada, Robinson of Arkansas, Borah of Idaho, Johnson of California. McNary of Oregon, Logan of Kentucky, Wagner of New York, Barkley of Kentucky, Norris of Nebraska, Hastings...
...British Gaumont production, of their better and livelier sort. This results in careful but not clever photography, authentic Belgian scenes, a minimum of stock bombardment pictures and a pleasant understatement in love-scenes and in the gushier aspects of patriotism. There is a refreshing lack of grim firing-squads, father-confessors, aerial suicides, poisoned wine. For these melodramatic trappings are substituted the lesser tools of spycraft; viz, notes inside cigarettes, underground passages, patriotic badge under the coat-lapel, (two safety-plus sinister), secret knocks on window panes. Simplicity is the note. The spy, Madeleine Carroll, has a quiet love with...
...that the middle class can deal with real upper and lower class politics in a peaceful way. Astute political leadership might keep class parties from developing in America, but if this fails, then the position of the middle class seems destined to be the same as in Germany, a grim menace...
...many a bitter pill. The London Treaty (1930) put the Navy's future into a diplomatic straitjacket. In the name of peace and disarmament, President Hoover whittled away at its appropriation year after year, almost brought its building program to a standstill. It was Admiral Pratt's grim duty to stand by and watch the U. S. fleet (except for capital ships) dwindle from supposed parity with Great Britain to actual inferiority to Japan. Last June Admiral Pratt was retired and Admiral William Harrison Standley succeeded him as Chief of Naval Operations (TIME, May 8). With a President...