Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Devonshire, pleasantest county in Britain, has a bleak centre. Midway between Plymouth and Exeter lies Dartmoor, a silent ocean of grey, treeless hills that support nothing but gorse, primroses in spring, and a few water-logged sheep. In its middle lies a grim, grey prison...
...Grim-eyed, stringy-haired, frumpishly virginal, the oldtime schoolmarm lived in a tradition as famed as that of the absent-minded professor. But frumps and dowds are not admired by present-day school teachers; "schoolmarm" is a fighting word. For anti-frumps there was sprightly reading last week in the sedate Journal of the National Education Association. Mrs. Lillian Gray, assistant supervisor of State Teachers College at Santa Barbara, Calif., had called together her teachers and posed the question: How can a teacher improve her personal appearance? Upon their replies she based an outline for the Journal. null to demonstrate...
...grim law of the French Republic, the guillotine must be set up in a public place to discourage wrongdoers. Modern French police do everything in their power to make it difficult for the morbid to see an execution. Last week strong police cordons blocked off the street 200 yards on either side of the Widow. Gaping butchers' boys peered over policemen's shoulders to see the tiny figure descend from a horse-drawn van. refuse the traditional cigar and glass of rum. There was a huddle round the base of the guillotine, then the knife crashed down...
President Resigns. South of the Great Wall in China proper last week, fear of the strong measures which Japan proceeded to take in Manchuria produced two grim, appalling spectacles of chaos and collapse...
First U. S. newsgatherer to obtain a formal interview from Dictator Josef Stalin was United Pressman Eugene Lyons (TIME, Dec. 1 & 8, 1930). First and only correspondent to chat with the grim Dictator's sweet-faced, cackling old mother was Hubert Renfro ("The Red Trade Menace") Knickerbocker (TIME, Dec. 8, 1930). Last week cheerful Ralph W. Barnes, comparatively a newcomer in Moscow and correspondent of Manhattan's Herald Tribune, was first to report Mrs. Josef Stalin, First Red Lady. He reported...