Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confiscated. For good measure Premier Duca suppressed two small parties of the ultraRight, the Iron Guards and the anti-Semitic National Christian Defense League. In a wholesale, nationwide shakeup local prefects were ousted and replaced by Bratianu men. "These new officials," said a close friend of Dino Bratianu with grim humor, "will have the duty of seeing that the election, which we will soon hold, results in a Liberal victory...
...grim, menacing contrast was another, smaller crowd of farmers 25 mi. away at Thurston, Neb. Pickets of the Farm Holiday Association, they burned a railroad bridge on the line into Sioux City. Other picketers burned a bridge over near Portsmouth, Iowa. Elsewhere in Iowa and in Wisconsin and Minnesota there was violence last week. But it was fitful, sporadic violence. Milo Reno's great Corn Belt uprising was not rising "in full gear" as he had urged. Checks from the Agriculture Adjustment Administration were descending on the land in a gentle, pervasive rain, damping the prairie fire of farmers...
...piano, and demi-tasses. Three floors down are barber shop and pool room. (To be sure, these facilities are open to all Freshmen, but we alone are constantly within banister distance of them. Who but us can sleep till 8.28 A.M. and still reach our orange-juice before the grim-faced guardian of the portal bars the way with her flimsy-looking but entirely effective plush rope...
...sake in the ash cans to get Joan a job in a chorus. Frank is regular, procures a position for the dear 'girl in Texas Kaley's night club and forgets her until he sees her in action: she is too wonderful so the hard boiled gangster loses his grim equanimity and his heart in a gentlemanly fashion. Before niches have found their indisputable positions under Joan's eyelashes, she is the headliner in the Kaley Night Club having displaced Frances Williams...
...grim, black-pompadored woman was dressed in black. Over her head was a borrowed crown that Napoleon I had used when in Rome. First to genuflect came Duke Maximilian of Hohenberg, the assassination of whose father, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, set off a war in July 1914. The chances that they were paying homage to a future Dowager Empress were better last week than they had been in a long time...