Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegate seats at the Democratic National Convention, leaving only four district delegates for Stevenson. The day before Minnesota, Stevenson had been considered almost a sure bet to get the Democratic nomination; the day after, there was doubt whether he could stay in the race. At a grim news conference the next afternoon, he tried to dispel the doubt. "I will try even harder," he said. "I have just begun...
...journalism's classic suspense stories ticked toward its climax, most major afternoon dailies took special pains to avoid lagging in the rush to the newsstands. Almost everywhere, alternate front pages waited to be hustled onto the presses. Most featured a grinning President Eisenhower saying YES or a grim-faced Ike under a headlined NO. Some papers even hedged with a third version: MAYBE...
...Court Jester Danny Kaye is the court jester, and he is a funny man. He dances, duels, jousts against "the grim and grisly gruesome Griswold," unwittingly outwits the evil courtiers and tells funny stories. Also, he has little men who do his bidding...
...theme, "The Circus." The pictures are all the same unmixed Buffet of morbid subject and individualistic craftsmanship: a rapid, flat, angular style carried out in monotonous grey tones accentuated with blue, dull olive and bilious yellow. The canvases displayed shabby acrobats, gaunt and ugly women performers, emaciated jugglers and grim freaks (see cut). Curiously, all the figures had the same sad features-Buffet...
...trying to solve this problem." Nonetheless, at week's end Dwight Eisenhower drove out to the Walter Reed Army Hospital, and for more than an hour submitted to a battery of tests-blood chemistry, fluoroscope, X ray and electrocardiogram. (Newsmen dutifully noted that he was grim-faced as he entered the hospital, smiling as he emerged.) This week, armed with the joint conclusions of Presidential Physician Howard Snyder and three cardiac experts (including Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White), the President was scheduled to slip off with Mamie for a week's vacation at Treasury Secretary George Humphrey...