Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shrine of "The Little Flower of Jesus," at Lisieux, has gone many a pil grim. Soldiers who whispered her name at the Marne or Verdun have covered her shrine with their medals and swords. A few years ago the shrine was visited by Mrs. Edward C. Post, 56, rich Newport relative of Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont who had lived much in France since her husband died. Deaf when she arrived, Mrs. Post left cured...
...lobbed the ball so as to give him time to get up. Bell got up, and smashed the sitter, won the point. The gallery was surprised but thought it understood. In the excitement of his fall, Bell had evidently not realized Hunter had done him a courtesy. Hunter looked grim after that. Bell was holding an edge in the set, his legs were giving in at last?he was limping a little...
...Anne Green, sister of Julian Green (TIME, Sept. 2, 1929) was born in Savannah, was taken to France as a baby, grew up and was educated in Paris. She is unmarried, in her 30's. Unlike her younger brother Julian, who writes of the French, in French, with grim French realism, Author Anne Green has needed no translator, is no very grisly realist, has gusto, gayety, humor...
Those who prefer anecdotes have only to buy Clémenceau,? the new biography by his onetime secretary Jean Martet, which was included last week in the list of U.S. non-fiction best sellers. But minds strong enough to enjoy a draught of Clémenceau, grim, tremendous, stern and undiluted, will prefer Grandeur et Misere to anecdotes...
Last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House there was an air of finality to the way the curtain fell on the grim ending of Carmen. The claque (house-paid clappers) and a handful of enthusiasts flocked to the front, shouted bravos at Mezzo-Soprano Ina Bourskaya and Tenor Antonin Trantoul. The big asbestos curtain hushed all that and the Metropolitan's regular season was ended. Supplementary Holy Week performances were scheduled to follow. But uppermost were plans for the annual spring tour. This year's route and repertoire...