Word: dim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dim past when Britain's majestic liner Queen Mary had been the sleekest ornament in the luxury passenger service seemed almost like another age. For all the long war years the Mary's career had been grim and dedicated. But last week her widow's weeds were gone. After nine months of beauty treatments in drydock, she shone bridelike again as she glided away from a Southampton pier to take a two-day trial...
Creatures of Circumstance contains just one disclaimer to Maugham's candid admission that "I'm a tired old party. . . . At my age, the spark begins to dim." The exception is The Unconquered, a story about occupied France in which a French girl is raped by a German soldier. Later the soldier comes back, learns that the girl is pregnant, falls in love with her and wants to marry her. In her hatred for the German and what he symbolizes, she refuses, drowns his child on the day it is born...
...Boston's dim summer entertainment picture has an abnormal grow this week while John Gielgud and his troupe are stopping over for a few days on their way home. The play is "Love for Love," by William Congreve; it is a hearty, yet unsophisticated play, written in the late Seventeenth Century, when neither bitterness nor sentimentality dominated the English stage. Most of the exists seem to be to bedchambers, and the only pulling of punches is done by the Boston censors. If "Love for Love" is a "classic," it is only because people still enjoy seeing it after 250 years...
...Boles, who takes a dim view of all current treatments, including stomach surgery, suggested that the best ulcer patients can do is to stick to the doctor's prescription as strictly as diabetics and tuberculosis patients. "In the light of our present knowledge," said he, "I believe we should regard ulcer as an incurable disease. It may be held in abeyance, however, by cultivating a new manner of living. With some, this is easy; with others who are involved in a squirrel-cage existence, it is difficult, if not impossible...
...Mueller himself wears a dark, striped suit and spectacles. Lending an air of Continental, scholarly suaveness to the store's Continental air of dim, dusty industry, he is always on the spot, assuring worried customers that on order to Chile will take only six weeks, or showing off his treasured collection of rare books only to those he knows share his love of antiquity. For Mr. Mueller, tall and soft-spaken, is no newcomer to bibliopoly. In Vienna, where he lived until 1939, he worked in his father's university bookstore. After eight months spent at Buchenwald, he came...