Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that, Mr. Hoover? Hurrah for Ritchie! Stand up, Bert! Take off your hat! Bow! You're all wet, Ritchie!" As the Wet demonstration continued under his nose the President's round face lost its affable smile and the corners of his mouth went down into a grim expression. After he had returned silently to Washington, the V. of F. W. went to Annapolis for a crab feast, which afflicted several hundred delegates with ptomaine poisoning. When enough of them had recovered to hold a final business session, the organization adopted (873-to-637) a resolution demanding the repeal...
...shot from ambush, killed Chief Freeman, wounded two others. The hunters caught George Grant, 40, locked him in jail. Georgia is restive these days. So Col. Roy Neal of the Georgia National Guard hastened to Darien with 25 men and machine guns. Armed townsmen tramped past the machine guns, grim and unmolested, entered Darien's jail, shot George Grant dead-lynching No. 13 of this year. Gov. Lamartine Griffin Hardman ordered Darien under martial...
...away with the match. Next day he beat Hunter for the second time in a week. Erratic and weak at the start, he suddenly worked up a pace that made watchers think of an other Californian of tremendous memory, Maurice McLoughlin, the Comet. He finished volleying duels by acing grim-faced Hunter and driving forehands past him. Hunter said he could never tell where Vines' drives were going. Score for Vines...
Also dead, well over a decade ago, is the person whose fanaticism kept intact the $100,000,000 Wendel realty holdings, who turned all his sisters but one into eccentric old maids. The silent, grim old house on Fifth Avenue, lighted by gas and without a telephone, is a monument to John Gottlieb Wendel. He it was who dominated his six sisters, holding all the titles to the Wendel properties in his own name, forbidding them to marry lest the family property be split up. He looked on with approval as they made their own clothes and wore the round...
...treaty binding them never to go to war and to accept the arbitrations of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in all mutual disputes. To these advanced peoples, so boldly in the van of Peace, so highly educated, so progressive in politics, police methods, liquor control and social legislation, the grim, tremendous, deadly Rodney might well have seemed as incongruous, as curiously old fashioned as a dinosaur or brontosaurus...