Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While millions in America are calling for bread and beer and the concern of every man is centered on his immediate demands, small notice is given to a grim shift in the undercurrent of the world's news. The years following 1918 found the leaders of Europe optimistic about the cause of permanent peace. Thinking men everywhere held out hope, and sound opinion declared another war highly improbable. Now, there is a different story, and the average man is inattentive...
...mouth that is so straight it looks as if it turned down a little at the corners. She wears her grey hair piled up in a plain, old-fashioned pompadour. Her eyes are steely, steady. A little dimple in her left cheek keeps her from looking like a pretty grim old party. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909). She is the only woman among the 18 "immortals" of the Swedish Academy. Reading one of Selma Lagerlof's books is like listening to the more-than-shrewd conversation of a wise old lady...
...word, the "forced laborers" are former kulaks (rich farmers) dispossessed of their land by the Soviet program of "collectivizing farms." With grim humor, Mr. Knickerbocker was told that in Russia rich farmers had never worked before, would not work except under some compulsion, are now being "taught to work...
...based on incidents of Dr. Munthe's early career as an interne in Paris, a doctor in Naples. Italy is Dr. Munthe's love, and even his Parisian subjects are Italians in exile: Hurdygurdler Don Gaetano, Tragic Poet Monsieur Alfredo, Model Raffaella. Though his tales are by nature grim, Author Munthe has whimsied them into wistfulness which never quite loses an old-fashioned charm. His humor is of the same mellow vintage. On a vacation at Ischia he struck up a friendship with a donkey. "Each morning came my neighbor, the old donkey, and stuck in her solemn head through...
Some Gibbonish of the first day: "You know this columning business is SH-S-H! It's a racket. The boys all have their territory charted out, with grim red lines marking the boundaries ? 'OH, YOU TAKE THE HIGH BROW AND I'LL TAKE THE LOW BROW'? That's the way the system works ? and as the dirt comes to me, an amateur starter is about as welcome as a stray Hip Sing in Mott Street. . . . Discovery that K. K. K. stood for 'Ku Klux Kon' has reduced the membership in the Klan from...