Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...former ballroom of Bad Nauheim's plush Park Hotel, the most shocking Army scandal of World War II reached its climax last week. Grim and flushed, his green eyes squinting belligerently through steel-rimmed glasses, Colonel James A. Kilian, for 26 months commandant of the notorious 10th Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield (England), heard an Army court-martial pronounce its verdict: not guilty of "knowingly" condoning the brutalities practiced in Lichfield's prison stockade, but guilty of "permitting" them. The sentence: a $500 fine, an official reprimand...
...Maynor, the guest star, canceled her engagement because her mother had just died. A substitute chorus was ill-prepared, and a pinch-hitting baritone had to fall back on 01' Man River. So the U.S. debut last week of a talented Negro conductor, Rudolph Dunbar, 39, was a grim experience for everyone but him. Critics praised his crisp, authoritative conducting of the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra...
Died. James Clark McReynolds, 84, grim, gruff, retired former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. (1914-41), trustbusting Assistant Attorney General under Theodore Roosevelt (1903-07) and Attorney General under Woodrow Wilson (1913-14), stout opponent of the New Deal and its freewheeling constitutional interpretations; of a gastrointestinal condition; in Washington...
This description by a Chinese philosopher of the 3rd Century B.C. serves as a prelude to one of the 34 grim studies in contemporary psychosis (that make up Anna Kavan's Asylum Piece. Despite lushness of metaphor and over-ornamentation of style, it is skillful fiction by a 30-year-old Englishwoman who has spent several years working among the insane...
...Gate the tension was even greater. A Government "fortress" went up last week in the heart of the New City. The British evicted shopkeepers and business firms along Jaffa Road, stretched tangles of barbed wire from rooftops to the ground and along the road. Sandbagged guard posts manned by grim-faced infantrymen and paratroopers in maroon berets hemmed in the precincts of the British rulers. Tommy gunners covered everyone entering Barclay's Bank to cash a check. The Post Office, Government Lands Office, Overseas Airways office jittered as Jewish extremists carried on a "telephone terror," threatening bombings (the blasted...