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And indeed, Norman Scott’s grimily claustrophobic set, with its grubby Charlotte Perkins Gilman wallpaper, is a distinctively masculine milieu, untouched by a female hand for many years.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2015

For years, 1350 has been empty, grimily grotesque alongside Lake Shore's spare apartment buildings.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Charlestown Chiefs represent one of those old, grimily industrialized middle-size Northeastern cities, the kind of place most viewers hear about only when it loses a defense contract.

From Time Magazine Archive