Word: grimmest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their most important football game of the year. That was in the first quarter when they stopped the Boston Redskins one foot short of a touchdown. Except for another goal-line stand, this time when the Redskins needed four yards to score, the rest of the game, roughest and grimmest of the season, was Boston's all the way. Ankle-deep mud slowed down the Giants' best ball carrier, Alphonse ("Tuffy") Leemans...
...Negroid race of France is our grimmest hater. . . . Jews, secret masters of France, are working to destroy the racial purity of Germany. ... It was, and is, the Jew who brings the Negroes to the Rhine to destroy the white race he hates by bastardization...
...that the U. S. joined the Allies in 1917. About equally divided between attacks on prevailing economic fallacies and less precise descriptions of the future dictatorship, The Coming American Fascism is a contradictory book, makes Fascism and the world in general seem so forbidding that only the grimmest spirits are likely to be attracted...
Born in Alabama 57 years ago, J. Frank Norris, like many another Southern divine, began preaching early, at 16. In 1908 he went to Fort Worth's First Baptist Church where he has remained ever since. Grimmest of grim Fundamentalists, he orates against Evolution, denounces the Roman Catholic Church, flays the "liquor crowd," excoriates birth control and divorce, thunders against bridge, cigarets, the cinema. The fact that in 1926 he shot and killed one D. E. Chipps, friend of Fort Worth's mayor whom Pastor Norris was then denouncing, did not bother the Baptists of First Church. Pastor...
...absurdity. The ghost of 1929 had last week the grim task of watching 1933 prepare to do what the anti-trust laws had never done, and saw one of the gigantic corporations which 1929 had created out of big and little ones, voluntarily and deliberately decide to disband-saw, grimmest of all, the financial community giving tacit approval to the act. A. H. Diebold, president of Drug Inc.. last week sent a letter to his 30,000 stock-holders inviting them to vote Aug. 7 on splitting up Drug Inc. into five companies. What is more he told...