Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roosevelt boosters declared that the "Murray menace" had now once & for all been eliminated. They claimed that their candidate had proved his popular power to carry the Northwest before him. Governor Murray, grim and unforgiving, declared he had been beaten by "postoffice politics...
Things had become a trifle grim when the Conference voted down (52 to 2) a proposal for total disarmament of all nations, made by Russia. There was a bad taste in everyone's mouth, left by the studied irony of Russia's Maxim Litvinov when he said: "I must apologize for suggesting once again that there be total disarmament, but where should this proposal be made if not to this disarmament conference...
...being news on Broadway. The Fatal Alibi, from Agatha Christie's Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which ends with the narrator's last-chapter confession, is not as funny as Monkey, but more logical. Engaged to solve this crime is Actor Charles Laughton, who made this season's grim Payment Deferred almost too real. This time Mr. Laughton is cast as the famed French operative Hercule Poirot. His accent is good, his mumming of characteristic meticulousness. Either Author Christie or Reviser John Anderson, capable theatre critic of the New York Journal, has supplied one crowning touch of veracity to the French...
...Grim, far-sighted Josef Vissarionovitch Dzhugashvili. known from Leningrad to Cape Horn as Stalin, last week told Russia what to do for the next five years. Dictator Stalin may change his mind, but barring a national catastrophe or acts of God (in whom he does not believe; Russia will do as he says...
...named Vyesyolov. Drunk, he staggered in front of a train. While the crew of that train was trying to extricate his body a second train ploughed into it. Peasants laid the wounded on a parallel track, a freight train ran over them. Those who were able to appreciate the grim humor of the situation recalled that the cobbler's name was similar to the Russian word meaning gay (Vyesioliy) that when Russians say "drunk as a cobbler" they mean very drunk...