Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Refusing to be hushed by Molotov, Kaganovich went on roaring until Molotov brought over Marshal Zhukov. Looking grim, Zhukov recalled a toast to "Justice" made earlier by U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen. He said he wanted to support that toast...
There is a simple way out of this grim mess, if we have enough vision and imagination to use it. Suppose the President of the United States were to issue an Executive Order to the armed forces right now, telling our men that, if captured by the Reds, they may sign any document the Communists want them to, or appear on radio or TV programs and deliver any script the Reds hand them. Tell them they can confess that the United States poisoned Lenin and Stalin; they can call the President a capitalist, warmongering dog of Wall Street; they...
...page treatise attacking priestly celibacy. One Sunday last fall, Abbé Dubois mounted the pulpit of his church. His hands trembled as he read a letter from the cardinal announcing his own excommunication, depriving him of "passive and active administration of the sacraments." After the service, friendly peasants surrounded grim-faced Father Dubois...
...even read for the ingenue part in The Country Girl on Broadway (left out in the movie). The producer told me I really wasn't the ingenue type, that I was too intelligent looking." Then she read for the daughter's part in Strindberg's grim The Father. She got the part and won good notices, but the play lasted only two months. Grace went back to TV ("summer stock in an iron lung") to play in such varied offerings as Studio One, Treasury Men in Action, Philco Playhouse and Lights...
...visiting his sick wife in Paddington two years before his death. Just released from prison, Morland painted himself, attended by his manservant Gibbs frying sausages. From his self-portrait Morland looks out with watery, disconsolate eyes. At his feet Morland painted what might well have been his own grim epitaph, an overturned glass and bottle, both empty...