Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liverpool schoolboy, is brutally forced to work by a drunken father. His first job, bailing bilge water out of a filthy ship and chipping salt from the boilers, so sickens him that he crawls on to a tramp steamer, escapes as a stowaway. His life on the freighter is grim with the obscenities of shipmates from cook to bo's'n. Here is not the sea of Conrad, romantic with austerities, but a sea which has beaten its devotees into a coarse ritual. "What kind of world was it into which he had flung himself? All men sailing...
...insult to the courage of Gold Star Mothers to insinuate that they whose Sons rest in "lovely cemeteries" would be willing to hold back any measure that may help to inculcate the grim actuality...
That "War is a mad and barbarous business" is true. No one knows that better than we who were on those battlefields and in those hospitals and saw these horror pictures in grim reality for days. We know these things from actually living them. We, who know what war really is, are not pacifists. We don't want another. We feel that these pictures are desired only by publishers for personal gain or by the morbid who derive a fiendish delight from pictures of war-torn wounded, hideous contortions of agonizing death, bloated, discolored, decomposing bodies of young manhood...
...Wagner?"petty treason" is too harsh a term. But you raise an interesting question, the old conflict between heart & head?and who has ever been able to decide between them? True, Col. Lindbergh had the opportunity o; showing a front as grim as any stern old Roman, to whom the life of a son counted as nothing against the fair fame of his State. Such a man might say: "A child is only a child?one may have many children?but bright Justice shall not be prostituted to the dark gods of the under-world...
...grim, guttural Apache, Golney ("Mac") Seymour, undersized Redskin buck, told a Federal court in Globe. Ariz. last week how he happened to attack and kill white Henrietta Schmerler, Columbia University student, last summer (TIME...