Word: grimly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...word, the "forced laborers" are former kulaks (rich farmers) dispossessed of their land by the Soviet program of "collectivizing farms." With grim humor, Mr. Knickerbocker was told that in Russia rich farmers had never worked before, would not work except under some compulsion, are now being "taught to work...
...based on incidents of Dr. Munthe's early career as an interne in Paris, a doctor in Naples. Italy is Dr. Munthe's love, and even his Parisian subjects are Italians in exile: Hurdygurdler Don Gaetano, Tragic Poet Monsieur Alfredo, Model Raffaella. Though his tales are by nature grim, Author Munthe has whimsied them into wistfulness which never quite loses an old-fashioned charm. His humor is of the same mellow vintage. On a vacation at Ischia he struck up a friendship with a donkey. "Each morning came my neighbor, the old donkey, and stuck in her solemn head through...
Some Gibbonish of the first day: "You know this columning business is SH-S-H! It's a racket. The boys all have their territory charted out, with grim red lines marking the boundaries ? 'OH, YOU TAKE THE HIGH BROW AND I'LL TAKE THE LOW BROW'? That's the way the system works ? and as the dirt comes to me, an amateur starter is about as welcome as a stray Hip Sing in Mott Street. . . . Discovery that K. K. K. stood for 'Ku Klux Kon' has reduced the membership in the Klan from...
...drab. What it takes Zona Gale has got. Out of the ruck of close-to-the-soil Midwestern authors she emerged with her first book. Her stories are as realistic as bread but they have a homemade flavor, not to be had without a personal recipe. She handles a grim subject with skilfully gentle, feminine hands...
Darkness, literal and figurative, hung heavily over Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon as a desperate coaching staff, labored far into the night over the University football squad after its disappointing showing in the Saturday tie with William and Mary. With the grim outlook of the strong Michigan invasion only five days away, Coach Horween put out the storm signals with a vengeance...