Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first four months of World War I, when Germany was staging the great initial offensives, the Germans suffered 677,440 casualties. In the especially grim months toward the end (March-June 1918). they lost 688,341 men. Therefore, in spite of the fact that advances in World War I were largely made with great waves of unprotected men, the German losses in Russia have probably been heavier than during bloodiest periods of World...
...more clear than that Hitler relied upon a starvation attack even more than upon invasion to bring us to our knees. ... So far as 1941 is concerned, these hopes at least have been dashed to the ground. . . ." There were figures, good solid figures, to substantiate this contention. Apparently the grim months when losses went so high that the Admiralty was frightened into silence-and when starvation seemed a real fear-were over. Whereas in the four months from March through June Britain and her Allies had lost 2,000,000 tons of merchant shipping, the four full months since then...
This is the first grim movement in the symphony of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon...
Kokoschka got his first important art training as an architectural designer in Vienna working under famed modern Architect Adolf Loos. In his spare time he painted tortured portraits of his Viennese friends. For his grim portraits and angrily smudged landscapes, collectors paid as high as $8,000. When Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, Expressionist Kokoschka, caught in Prague, flew to England...
...late Manhattan restaurant keeper ("Janssen Wants to See You"), Werner Janssen pounded and hacked his way to a musical career, over the grim opposition of his father, who wanted him to carry on in Janssen's Hofbrau. In the early 1930s the younger Janssen made his splash with Europe's great orchestras, was rated tops in playing Sibelius, by the great Finn himself. But when the New York Philharmonic-Symphony tried him in 1934, Janssen failed to click. He went to Hollywood, wrote the score for The General Died At Dawn, married Actress Ann Harding. For two years...