Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War I relief missions; it tells of Herbert Hoover's eight years as Secretary of Commerce under Harding and Coolidge and of the not unimportant but less dramatic undertakings in his four years as President. It is, as the author admits, "a text composed mostly of grim economics"-postwar reconstruction, reclamation, foreign loans, disarmament negotiations, labor relations, child welfare and a myriad of other projects of whose origins and achievements the ex-President writes with stolid earnestness. But the book has its sprightly surprises and rewarding glimpses of men and problems as Herbert Hoover saw them...
...smile that looked like the result of a bite from a persimmon, seemed always to be telling fuel-short Britons to take cold baths (as he had done every day for years). He was Mr. Austerity. Actually, Stafford Cripps was affable, friendly, generous. Britons knew he was doing a grim job that had to be done. He checked inflation, cut back the dollar expenditures of Britain and her dominions, devalued the pound, launched an economic life-saving program which, though it has not yet succeeded, is still basically the one by which Britain is hoping to survive...
...grim tourist traffic between the free world and the Communist world was in full swing...
...Mark's boy meets sub-deb at yacht club party; he tries to give the impression of being a world-wise man about the beach, she--a sophisticate. Girl sets fast pace for a while, but finally breaks down and acts her age. The humor here is pretty grim, and it is about time the Lampoon found itself a new plot...
...Report's third section therefore comes as a surprise, like finding water listed among the items of a French cuisine. Just when we had become convinced that a few adjustments would remedy G.E.'s shortcomings, the Report's authors tell us that the situation is grim enough to warrant cutting the requirement from three lower-level G.E. courses to two. Gloomy statistics are paraded before us: 319 students would have the rule modified, 116 would require but two courses 38 but one, and 61 none...