Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second campaign for the Crown, this rather terrible old lady has been aided by quite the most resolute and grim of Hungarian statesmen, Julius Ritter Gömbös von Jákfa, Minister of War. Soon after his appointment (TIME, Oct. 21), he restored the practice of flogging Hungarian soldiers for the slightest infraction, an historic Habsburg barbarity abolished in 1855 by Franz Josef. Tooth and nail War Minister Combos has fought the restoration of Karl's son, famed "Little Otto." Several times the election of Isabella's Albrecht as King of Hungary has seemed almost a sure thing. But suddenly...
Albrecht had disobeyed and deceived his mother. She knew nothing about his kneeling to "Little Otto" until it was all over. The rich Hungarians who had staked $2,000,000 on Albrecht's candidacy knew nothing. Grim Julius Gömbös was not in the secret. It appeared that Albrecht, running true to form as a decadent, wench-conscious Habsburg Archduke, had renounced his chances for the Throne?for a woman...
...Schoolmaster Taussig" is an early story of Neumann's, a grim naturalistic sex tragedy considerably more effective than "King Haber", though much cruder and more exaggerated. "The Patriot", familiar to movie fans as one of Emil Jannings best pictures, stands out as the most skillfully handled and the most appealing of the three stories. The gradual development of the conspiracy against the mad Czar Paul, the struggles of Count Pahlen against external opposition and against his self-accusations of ungratefulness, are told with careful objectivity, yet with a much finer dramatic sense than appeared in "King Haber". "The Patriot...
...LAST MILE?Grim depiction of the road to the electric chair...
...amazing feat. Said she at Surabaya, Java, before starting across the Timor Sea: "The less I think of this, the better I know this last stretch will be the biggest fright of my life. . . . Oh, you don't know that forlorn feeling-above you, a grim black sky; underneath, the revolving sea, and you are quite alone in a frail machine, every moment fearing that the motor will fail and you will have to face calamity. No, no-never again...