Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wildly cheered by the patriotic populace of Modane near the Franco-Italian frontier, 1,200 French soldiers climbed aboard a troop train. Half an hour later 535 were dead and 243 injured in "the worst train wreck in history.'' This grim fact which has been a military secret since it occurred in 1917, was released by the French Government last week. The release came apropos of an investigation into the recent wreck at Lagny in which 200 people died (TIME, Jan. 1) after which the President of the Republic asked mourning Frenchmen not to light the candles...
...critics the greatest part of Strauss's amazing score comes when the orchestra goes as wild as Salome, exults with her, subsides to an eery dissonance while she sings to the head. It was then that Soprano Ljungberg came nearest to realizing the music's grim intensity. She crouched on the floor, reproached the thing gently, sang to it ecstatically. Tenor Max Lorenz was a picture-book Herod instead of the crazy neurasthenic that Wilde and Strauss intended. Dorothee Manski (Herodias) had to pinchhit for Karin Branzell who was taken with gallstones (see col. i). Baritone Friedrich Schorr...
...Tissier of their Crédit Municipal was hustled for questioning to the prefecture. Shocked friends recalled that only recently he was proposed for the Legion of Honor. Now police were saying that Manager Tissier had given jewelry left in pawn to his pretty friend. Impossible? Mais non! Soon grim detectives from Paris were staggering Bayonne with the assertion that Manager Tissier and his handful of jewels were not the point. They claimed, after a hasty rummage through the Crédit Municipal's books, that French insurance companies had been mulcted of perhaps 500,000,000 francs...
...realistic observer of international affairs does his high-level best to prove that war is imminent, inevitable, that the U. S. will be in it. Observer Simonds does not believe in fairies, the Kellogg Pact or the League of Nations. He views the present state of the world with grim alarm but thinks an open eye better than a buried head. The Europe of 1933. says Simonds. is ''back in the situation and state of mind of July, 1914." After Japan's deliberate flouting of the Kellogg Pact in her conquest of Manchuria, the failure...
...reporter poked around the grim dressing room and drew another remark out of the actor. "Right, you've got to be careful what you say and do. You're just one among several millions of attentive germs on concrete space, and audiences as well as actors (with a chuckle) are 60 to 40 per cent ego, which is 40 to 60 per cent vanity and the substance of our existence...