Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peace was indeed being discussed between the belligerents. And the world laughed at the one joke which emerged from a grim week: Joseph Stalin had established contact with Helsinki's Government-which he had said did not exist; it had been "overthrown" by the revolt of the Terijoki People's Government...
...finally made its appearance on celluloid, even the most ardent Steinbeck fans will shamefacedly withdraw their objections. For Hal Roach retells the story of George, the migrant farmer, and his protege, the idiot Lennie, with the same simplicity and sinceity, the same trenchant poignancy, as Mr. Steinback. Packed with grim reality, gripping in its psychological depth, "Of Mice and Men" the movie, does no more nor less than the novel,: it lays open some facts of life, plainly and eloquently...
...Charcoal, the national domestic fuel, was recently introduced as a substitute for precious gasoline in powering automobiles. Last week the fuel shortage was so grim that gasoline had to be used as a substitute for charcoal. Schoolchildren were sent into the mountains to cut wood and carbonate it for charcoal. A great scandal broke out when two 15-year-olds fell to their death in a charring...
Northwest Passage (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a grim reminder to pale faces with an atavistic itch to bag an Indian that potting "those red hellions up there" is all work and no play. So Rogers' Rangers (a band of buckskinned vigilantes) find out when (circa 1759) they put themselves in Spencer Tracy's calloused hands, shove off with him and Captain Ogden (Truman Bradley) in whaleboats for a little massacre of the Abenaki Indians...
...Germany, for the three ships sunk were the laden oil tankers British Triumph and Gretafield, both off Britain's northeast coast, and the refrigerator ship Sultan Star in the Bay of Biscay, fetching home 6,000 tons of Argentine beef. For Great Britain, however, these sinkings had grim recompense: the two U-boats responsible were soon sunk, arguing reckless desperation by Nazi commanders in their effort to counter-blockade Britain, or greenness in a new class of submarine personnel, or increased expertness by Britain's defenders. Before the week was out Germany claimed a total...