Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same sea, in fact, on which the Vagabond had stemmed his way hither and yon in the breezes of August. A scene fished upon his inner eye,--the scene of two vessels, well out to sea, one a stately yacht, glistening with brass and pearly canvas, the other a grim, gray cutter of the revenue fleet. At the same moment a puff of white smoke escaped the muzzle of the signal gun on the prow of the cutter, and an instant later the towering schooner was headed into the wind, her tops' I canvas rattling like the sound of cannon...
Though many of Siam's merriest cocktails are quaffed in the rambling palace of big, fun-making Prince Svasti, His Highness can be serious-as befits the father-in-law of the King. In grim earnest last week Prince Svasti discussed the situation facing Siam since diminutive King Prajadhipok staved off a revolution by abdicating as an "absolute sovereign," and, as "constitutional monarch," submitted to de facto rule of Siam by a group of Army officers...
Something grim by Alban Berg, a new complexity by Stravinsky, something noisy out of the U. S. S. R.-any new composition out of the ordinary has titillated Philadelphians and Manhattanites when Leopold Stokowski shook his frizzy blond locks over it for the first time. Audiences did not always actually like the new music; but there was the exciting possibility of a new Stokowski gesture, a Stokowski gadget, a lot of Stokowskitalk. A typical performance was when, at a broadcast concert, he conducted in a glass booth, controlling the sound to his own satisfaction. It has since been learned that...
...Poor Resistless Heart." an ode, was written by George Washington at the age of 16. Set to music by Maury Madi son (who has also set songs by the wives of U. S. Presidents- TIME. Nov. 16), it was performed last week on NBC's Pil grim Program (studio program). Excerpts : Oh, Ye Gods why should my Poor Resistless Heart Stand to oppose thy might and power, At last surrender to Cupid's feather'd Dart, And now lays bleeding every h-o-u-r In deluding slee pings let my Eyelids close, That in an enraptured...
...realities of existence less onerous for some of them Author Hergesheimer did his best. He took supper at the Swedish Pavilion "with a girl I found swimming at the Freibad," treated her to wild strawberries, lake trout, caviar. He took her home, a 40-minute taxicab ride, left her, grim with amazement at such extravagance, near her door...