Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago crime, a man acquainted with under-worldlings from the meanest racetrack tipster to Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone himself, whom he visited for the Tribune winter before last at the Capone estate in Miami Beach, Fla. From the Tribune's tower on upper Michigan Avenue soon issued a grim proclamation: "The Tribune accepts this challenge. It is war. There will be casualties, but that is to be expected, it being war. . . . The challenge of crime has been given with bravado. It is accepted, and we'll see what the consequences...
Children. The social workers at Boston seemed rather a grim group, the old of no particular old age, the young without youth. Most were women. They all hurried about with tight faces. The more genial faces belonged to members of the various children's groups. J. Prentice Murphy, Philadelphia, was their philosopher. Noted he: "We cannot be strictly logical about human beings. We can prophesy with accuracy about masses of people?but not about individuals. Approximately 70,000 illegitimate children will be born in the U. S. in 1930, but no community can foretell who of its people...
...believe in the tragedy (in the romance) of the binomial theorem (I am not so sure that Newton saw it)." The novels (short stories) in this book are not exemplary in the conventional moral sense, but examples of tragic human characters, tragic situations. The two daughters of a grim old grandee fall in love with the same man; he seduces the older before he marries the younger, and his two children grow up to fill his house with hate. Don Juan, lover of the childless widow Raquel, marries Berta to become a father, becomes instead the jealously guarded child...
...Stalin's own) was bundled out of Moscow on a few hours notice, exiled to Turkestan for a year, then banished (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928). In decisions of state Stalin is equally abrupt. One (day he orders wholesale "liquidation" (extermination) of the kulak or "rich peasant" class, and the grim campaign begins (TIME, Jan. 13, et seq.). A week, six months or two years later the Dictator may change his mind. As in the case of the anti-Religion campaign, he may modify or relax his whole program, reserving if not the Right then the Power to redouble persecution...
...timid brother, acted best. Discounting its less efficient elements the picture still stands as an astounding achievement. The air sequences will draw gasps from the most stolid patron. In the early reels a duel (German) is most adroitly handled. Scenes on board a Zeppelin raiding London are tense with grim reality. The destruction of this Zeppelin has rarely been rivalled in the whole history of motion picture thrills. Best shot: the Zeppelin nosing through night clouds over London. Not the least talk-provoking thing about Hell's Angels was its producer, young, thin, awkward, very rich, slightly deaf, mentally...