Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dispatched grim-faced General J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, posthaste for Japan and Korea to see MacArthur...
...hours politics and recriminations were forgotten. Democrats and Republicans drew together in a kind of stunned silence to listen to the latest news and the latest grim briefing on the situation from Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett and Lieut. General Alfred Gruenther, the Army's chief planner...
...young realists, sent a vapid study of a curiously costumed boy on a bicycle adorned with a red, white & blue racoon tail. He called it Young America. Philip Evergood, who is as much concerned with social propaganda as he is with exercising his prodigious talent, showed a grim glance at Harlem entitled Sunny Side of the Street. It was cluttered as all get-out, but as usual with Evergood, every detail was drawn with character and spirit...
...condemn its youthful author to remain a wishy-washy wordster forever. A humdrum little tale by Henry James, The Death of the Lion, gives no indication of the labyrinthine richness he was able to manage when he felt like it. To the contemporary eye, only George Gissing's grim story of spinsterhood, The Foolish Virgin, seems fit to rank with the best of The Yellow Book painters and draftsmen (Beardsley, Sickert, Beerbohm, Sargent, Steer, Cotman, Guys...
Trevor Howard is completely fitting as the grim pebbly faced Englishman, for whom an almost unnoticeable muscular movement is sufficient to turn a rapturous smile into a scowl of the utmost malevolence. Anouk is one of the newer French exports; her nose is larger than most, but otherwise she is cut from the whole cloth...