Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grim and unsmiling as the twelve-car train pulled out of Rushville. First scheduled stop was Chicago. First important speech would be three days later at Coffeyville, Kans., where he had taught high school. Willkieites counted on that speech to do what his acceptance speech at Elwood had failed to do: set the Willkie drive on fire. If the Coffeyville speech did not do it, GOPoliticians would have good cause for gloom. Aboard the train were skeptical newspapermen, the candidate's staff of amateur advisers, Mrs. Willkie in a grey hat and coat, Son Philip, Brother...
...Armies: Washington, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Pershing. On its neat, massive desk stood a single memento: an old World Series baseball with fading autographs. Quizzed by a battery of surrounding newshawks, he had slow, measured words of hope for the British. Later, in a broadcast, he had a sober, grim warning for Americans: "We must face the facts of today. . . . The danger is imminent. ... To meet it we must pledge ourselves anew to fulfill our obligations to the nation, and again avow eternal devotion to the principles of liberty and justice upon which this nation rests...
...means surprising is the fact that war brought a box-office boom to British cinema theatres. It was to be presumed that cinemaddicts would seek escape in rip-roaring thrillers, wacky comedies, sprightly musicals. Not at all. Last week their favorites were grim documents of the Fleet in action, airmen swooping, bombs falling, factories roaring-anything and everything to do with war. Along with these rousing shots of what people see every day the Ministry of Information was offering a surprise package in a group of five-minute shorts...
Young People (20th Century-Fox). Legend has established U. S. vaudevillians as loudmouthed, softhearted, pertinacious vagabonds. It has established New Englanders as grim, laconic moralists. According to Young People it takes an act of God to reveal the goodness in either. When Joe and Kit Ballantine (portly Jack Oakie and aging Charlotte Greenwood), a veteran song & dance team, decide to give their dimpled foster daughter Wendy (Shirley Temple, retired) a solid New England background, they leave the footlights for a Vermont farm. In the obvious conflict that ensues, the natives win hands down...
Safe in Portugal, after a report last month of his capture by the Nazis in Paris, was grim, Hitler-hating Otto Strasser, leader of the subterranean Black Front, who hope some day to erase the Nazi Führer...