Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rose three great revolutionary artists. Their lurid propaganda paintings (reaching Mexico's illiterate peons far more effectively than printed words) covered walls from Nuevo Leon to Yucatan and revived the art of fresco painting on a scale unequaled since the Italian Renaissance. The three: stocky, effusive Diego Rivera; grim, brooding José Clemente Orozco; pallid, green-eyed, conspiratorial David Alfaro Siquieros...
There is nothing so grim and grimy as the British provincial theatre, and Gertrude Lawrence had nearly eight years of it, in her teens, before she had a London engagement. When she got a call from the London revue producer, Andre Chariot, Gertie sneaked her clothes from the theatre where she was playing, borrowed the fare to London, and landed a three-year contract with Chariot starting at $16 a week. Shortly afterwards she married a showman named Francis Xavier Gordon-Howley who, as the justice remarked at the divorce proceedings several years later, seemed to have intended to spend...
Having long expected to face the grim choice between guns and butter...
...30th annual convention of the National Retail Dry Goods Association, most potent of all retail groups. Last year its 5,700 member stores sold $4,500,000,000 worth of goods more than 15% of all U. S. retail sales. President Frank McConnell Mayfield's keynote was grim. Said he: ". . . the waving of flags and singing of God Bless America will not solve the problem. . . . The principal concern of retailing as it faces a New Year is to further the progress of national rearmament...
...remainder of the program is a well-assorted collection of war propaganda featuring Christmas in London ad dive-bombing at the Pensacola Naval Flying School. To relieve that grim note a style show is included which displays, as the announcer succinctly puts it, "the latest dresses with bags to match...