Word: grimmest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writers he has moved familiarly among the pleasure-hunters of the U. S.'s expensive winter resort, Palm Beach, jotting down many a note of things seen & heard. Some of these ten short stories appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, but they would make good reading for the grimmest Communist. With few exceptions the people in Tropical Winter are vicious, hysterical, more than half-crazed by pleasure-laden lives. Since Deatfrdebunked Ivar Kreuger, no one supposes that matches are made in heaven, but bourgeois opinion still holds that Palm Beach and romance go hand in hand. Author Hergesheimer does...
...after desperate day last week Dr. Otto Ender, Chancellor of Austria, staved off the fall of his cabinet and strove to avert the grimmest fiscal crisis which his country has faced since her finances were officially stabilized by the League of Nations. There was even talk that Austria might have to place herself under League fiscal tutelage again. Cause of the crisis was the near failure of Osterreichische Kreditanstalt, the great Vienna bank founded 86 years ago by the House of Rothschild. On its board of directors today sit representatives of the Bank of England, Manhattan's Guaranty Trust...
...Africa Speaks which would qualify for inclusion: a swarm of locusts darkening the skies, covering the ground six inches deep, dispersing a herd of gnu, eating all the foliage off a tree; a lion killing a native boy in a scene which (if not faked) is one of the grimmest ever judged fit for public release; a strange kind of antelope called the illampa jumping 40 ft. through the air in slow motion; flamingoes goose-stepping through a marsh. Most of the other episodes, though fairly interesting, are stencils. The incidental sound effects are supposed to have been recorded...