Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coyoacán suburb of Mexico's capital. The house, placed at Trotsky's disposal by the wife of Mexico's Trotskyist painter, Diego Rivera, is elaborately wired to sound warnings of intruders. At night it stands out like a three-alarm fire in dim-lit, sleepy Coyoacán as floodlights blaze on the pastel blue walls. Trotsky's three secretaries carry pistols, practice target shooting in their spare moments. The Great Exile himself parks a big revolver on his desk as a paper weight whenever he sits down to write. Small, white-haired...
...Australia as an opener of new air routes. So heavy were Pilot Allan's mailbags (8,000 Ib.) that passengers were transferred to another ship. Imperial Airways looks forward this year to extending its 20,000-mile system by a North Atlantic service to Canada. Still in the dim future is the completion of its empire world circuit with a route across the Pacific between Vancouver and Hong Kong...
...Past Recaptured: a wood panel with cracked, dim paint counterfeiting a 14th-Century relic, on which a pink and grey form swam outward as the artist's face...
Kolbe, like Lehmbruck, never uses the hammer and chisel. Like Lehmbruck, too, his art suggests a man conscious of a world governed by illogical forces. He seeks escape in dreams of gentle adolescence. Youths and maidens take dim shape as though seen from a distance, or through a haze...
...Boston papers and singled out Radcliffe College for attack. The vituperative pen of a Greater Boston preacher managed to magnify the serving of sherry at a meeting of the Radcliffe Auxiliary into a drunken carousal; but investigation shows two important facts were overlooked in making these accusations, facts which dim the lurid spotlight thrown on an innocent gathering...