Word: grimly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Governor Fisher did not get excited about signing the release papers, many another individual did. Before dawn the next day a curious crowd began to collect before the great grim wall of the Eastern Penitentiary at Philadelphia to watch the Capone coming-out party. Policemen appeared, formed lines. When two closed vans rattled out of the prison gate, the crowd pressed forward with a common question, "Is Capone in there?" The Philadelphia Record spread a scare-headed story that Chicago gunmen were in town to "get" the prisoner when he emerged. The Warden informed newsmen that Capone had had scrambled...
...President Paul von Hindenburg was the impressive majority. Realizing that the bill had to pass, Centrist opponents of the Young Plan schemed to save their faces by abstaining from the vote to allow the bill to squeak through and become law by the President's signature. The grizzled, grim President, who apparently knows and sees all in German politics, neatly bud-nipped this plan. Summoning the Centrist leader, Dr. Heinrich Briming, he pounded his desk with his gnarled fist, announced that unless the Young Plan was ratified by a majority large enough to show unmistakably that the Reichstag stood...
...necked, he bears a distinct resemblance to the late great Gustav Stresemann whose friend and disciple he was. More important, he is one of the most intimate personal friends of President von Hindenburg. Born in Berlin in 1879, Bankpresident Luther proudly claims descent from the patron saint of Protestantism, grim-jawed Martin Luther...
...surname Tappolet. Only 26, he has already attracted enviable attention in Geneva, Stuttgart. Mannheim. Last week's performance brought him still further prestige for, while lacking the commanding personality of Basso Bohnen, he sang his music in a full, effective voice, acted the role of the dark, grim Hagen in a manner so satisfactory that for many it stamped his Metropolitan debut as the season's best...
Last week after grim weeks of combing the shattered wreckage of their plane (southeast of Cape North, Siberia), the bodies of Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland were found by a party of 19 Russians under the direction of Commander Slipenov. Deep in snow and ice lay the bodies, frightfully crushed from the terrific impact of the speeding plane. It had been chartered to unload passengers and furs from the ice bound motorship Nanuk (TIME, Jan. 6). Borland's body was found first, Eielson's several days later. They were taken to the Nanuk, where starts their last...