Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Said he: "You must not expect the Americans to solve our domestic problems for us. [No one] is going to keep the British lion as a pet." Nor should the Tories themselves be expected to turn on prosperity overnight. "Unpleasant" measures will be needed to deal with "stern and grim facts." The Conservatives, said Winston Churchill, will need "at least three years before anyone can judge fairly whether we have made things better or worse...
Moises Padilla lost the election. But the boss wasn't through with him. The day after, Padilla was picked up and a grim procession began. His hands tied, Padilla was led from one provincial town, to another and beaten methodically while spectators were told to take a good look and see what happened to those who defied Lacson...
When he was not painting grim ringside views of prizefighters at work, Artist George Bellows liked nothing better than to paint pleasant pictures of his pretty wife Emma. Bellows painted six of them in 15 years, and all but two were sold. Last week Emma Bellows was offering her favorite for sale at a small Manhattan showing of her husband's works...
...work out. One projected show, called Don't Make Me Laugh, had a sensational gimmick: the contestant got $100 if he could keep a straight face for three minutes while a famous comedian told him jokes. Says Todman sadly: "We found that, for $100, a guy could stay grim no matter what happened...
...Whitney, head of the National Sales Executives organization, heard about this graveside elegy to the American traveling man, he rushed off to see Producer Stanley Kramer. Such a gloomy fadeout, Whitney argued, would horrify the peppy, up-to-the-minute salesman of today. Kramer would not tamper with the grim plot of his forthcoming film version of Death of a Salesman. But he offered a sop. Columbia would make a special ten-minute short for Whitney's organization, showing that salesmen these days are not like Willy Loman at all, but happy, well-trained technicians who are a valuable...