Word: grimly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remembrance of these grim events, bells tolled mournfully last week in every Belgian village. It was the 23rd anniversary of Aug. 4. 1914, the day when the first patrol of German Uhlans crossed the Belgian border at Gemmenich. Old Field Marshal Graf von Schlieffen's 19-year-old plan to crush France at a single blow by a wide sweep through Belgium was at last being put to the test. The Treaty of 1839 guaranteeing Belgium's territorial integrity had become a scrap of paper. A four years' holocaust had begun...
...foot in a scene of the greatest political confusion which Washington had witnessed in many years. At the Capitol a group of resolute Democrats stood entrenched with the firm resolve that the Supreme Court Bill should not pass. At the White House, mile and a half away, sat a grim President not only determined that it should pass but still expecting that it would. From the moment of his arrival, white-haired Jack Garner took charge of the situation...
...Russians are plenty good as airmen, but they don't speak any language, apparently, except their own and never mix with pilots of other nationalities. They are grim and secretive rather than congenial...
...DISCLAIM DEVELOPING GREAT IDEA OF BEING AMERICA'S BEST HISTORICAL NOVELIST. NEVER HAD IT AND NEVER WILL BECAUSE EVERY TIME I'VE FINISHED A BOOK I'VE RAISED MY RIGHT HAND AND SWORN I'D NEVER DO IT AGAIN. IT'S WEAKNESS COUPLED WITH GRIM NECESSITY THAT MADE ME KEEP ON NOT FLAMING AMBITION...
This mourning was real for Joe Robinson. Although he was not a good fellow in the backslapping line, although he had no facile charm or unusual mental gifts, although he was a downright man and snorted at his opponents, his fighting courage was deeply respected, his grim rectitude unquestioned. He was above demagoguery. Tom Heflin in his time and Huey Long in his, both inspired Joe Robinson's contempt and he voiced it so frankly that he made them his particular enemies. He had two virtues prized above all others by professional politicians: his word was good...