Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city's hot musicians-gave Billie and others a chance to hear her sing Strange Fruit, and also provided the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People a prime piece of musical propaganda. Unsqueamish, the Commodore had not balked at recording Teacher Allan's grim and gripping lyrics, which begin...
Mogul Goldwyn has outdone himself to make Wuthering Heights not only a faithful representation of the book, making only excusable cuts, but a superb picture. To maintain such a consistent mood of grim decadence is no easy job for a motion picture, yet director, producer, and cast have held that mood and made Wuthering Heights into a tremendously convincing tragedy. But of all those who had a hand in the picture Laurence Oliver deserves the largest share of credit. Here is a Robert Taylor with some guts, a Clark Gable who knows...
...pounding against cliffs hundreds of feet high,--such is the incidental music that surges through one of the cinematic masterpieces of out time, "The Edge of the World." That music sets the tempo, and in time with its thunderous beat marches a story of decaying society that is as grim as it is magnificent. That little group of people, on a desolate little island north of Scotland, fighting a losing battle against nature, themselves, and the breakdown of the immemorial traditions, becomes a living cell symbolic of a larger organism...
...same date ex-Plunger Joseph Patrick Kennedy, on vacation from the U. S. Embassy in London, reached home. Whatever he thought privately about economic conditions, he said in his public capacity that only a war would put the market (and therefore business) down to where it was in the grim spring...
...truckloads of grim-faced men armed with garden tools loan around the grounds, stop at a piece of bare ground and more or less furiously attack the stubborn soil, the inn grins impishly This impasse has gone on for several weeks now, with neither side-the Maintenance Department nor Nature-willing to concede an inch. Gradually, frustration is showing on the men's faces, and only daily pep talks from the foremen prevent their morale from snapping...