Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...share of parental troubles. Patsy Custis was a sick girl, subject to fits -she died at 17. Young John Custis, spoiled by a worshiping mama, ran to laziness; he preferred race horses and fancy clothes to studying at King's College in New York. With grim patience, his stepfather tried to set the boy right...
When the news got to Washington, Furtado's boss, Collector James G. Smyth, was promptly suspended by the President. Less than an hour later, Dunlap held a press conference and announced the removal of six more San Francisco tax officials. Smyth and his lieutenants, explained the grim commissioner, were being removed for "incompetence." They should have known what Furtado was doing and stopped...
Till Eulenspiegel (U.S. premiere), set to the raucous, good-humored music of Richard Strauss, with choreography by 27-year-old Jean Babilée (TIME, April 23). In the Babilée version, Till's merry pranks usually have their grim side, e.g., when a pretty girl spurns him, he turns her into a witch; when hunchbacked beggars welcome him to their group, he steals their money. At the end, he is saved from the chopping block by a girl who ought to know better but loves him anyway. Babilée's lithe gymnastics are the whole...
...week of V-J day. War's end sent Douglas' $2 billion Government backlog tumbling to $60 million, shut down three of his war-built plants, cut his labor force from its peak of 167,000 to a mere 12,000. Douglas thought the future looked so grim that he considered branching out into other products, checked into the possibilities of making everything from mailboxes and cream separators to prefabricated houses. By 1947, he had gone $14.7 million into the red ($2,000,000 after tax credits), the first deficit in his company's history...
Intelligence reports, refugees' accounts, dispatches by correspondents in neighboring countries, and the Communists' own news services spelled out a grim story of events in Russia's satellites...