Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Entering the Senate in 1913 as a Helena attorney, "Tom" Walsh, grim of mien and gruff of manner, quickly developed as a great constitutional authority. He fought notably for the confirmation of Louis Dembitz Brandeis, first Jew on the Supreme Court. Organized Labor is still grateful to him for his efforts to exclude unions from the anti-trust laws He led the fight that ended only when Michigan's wealthy Truman Newberry resigned from the Senate seat he was accused of buying. His relentless investigation of the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil leases finally put Albert Bacon Fall...
Their remarks were not addressed to Utah's grim, bespectacled Reed Smoot who as the committee's Republican chairman sat nodding at the head of the long green-baize table. He is a lame duck, soon to fall from his roost. Nor did the witnesses talk to impress Michigan's white-crested Couzens or Pennsylvania's sad-faced Reed or Wisconsin's pompadoured La Follette. All these would soon be in an impotent Republican minority. The man the witnesses knew they were talking to was the tall, rangy, half-bald Democrat who slumped...
Next day the demonstrations became a big, grim picnic. Sandwiches, foraged from nearby restaurants, were passed around. From the county jail came coffee. Someone got hold of a gavel, used it to beat time for a song. Pinocle games started. Other groups squatted against the walls, swapped stories...
Eight shabby sedans, each driven by a grim-faced man, each freighted with five pretty, nervous and very young women, dashed and slithered over the mountain road from Chile to Argentina, plowed with whining gears through deepening snow, finally bogged down in a great drift just beneath the towering statue of "The Christ of the Andes...
...minister had struck their choirmaster. There had been charges against Mr. Conway, a "trial" by clergymen, a report sent off to Bishop Edgar Blake in Detroit. Mr. Conway heard that Choirmaster Aurand had talked about the charges. What were they? When Muncie found out it began wondering if this grim, sombre Methodist minister were another Elmer Gantry. A pretty girl of the congregation, Helen Huffman, 18, friend of one of the Conway girls, had accused Mr. Conway of having attempted to rape her in his automobile one afternoon last December...