Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chubby little boy named Wood used to persuade the sextons of vast, dim London churches to let him climb up on the organ bench and poke his fingers into the triple-tiered keyboard. Later he studied at the Royal Academy, tried to be a composer, but it was not until he was engaged to conduct a series of Promenade Concerts in the new Queen's Hall in 1895 that his name began to command space in the newspapers. It was then considered impossible to play good music for audiences at Promenade Concerts; they wanted to hear Goodbye, Dolly...
Down in the cellar of the Luxembourg, Paris, loom the shapes of pictures temporarily stored there until the museum needs them again. Last week, another picture was added to that dim company. It was Whistler's Portrait of His Mother...
...disguised as pastel crayons; "Cellini's Dream," difficult to describe. All these are transcended by the most colossal exploitation of the Mammy song ever attempted on the U. S. stage, a skit entitled "Mothers of the World." gentle matrons, in a series of cloistered niches, touched with a dim, a holy light, sing their infants asleep, while above their heads the prima donna, attired as a cherub, leads a choir of angels...
...Grand Street Follies (Third Edition). The Neighborhood Players will not dim the glitter of their reputations by the third edition of their follies. A purification committee inspects Manhattan's entertainments and, in a series of plays within the play, one gets a satyr's-eye view of the season's theatricals. The items include...
...their work will be another proof of the triumph of spirit over matter, worthy to rank with Egyptian Karnak and our own Gimp. For five centuries countless generations of poor scholars wore down the hollowed steps from their pristine rectangularity and looked out upon the Arctic winter from their dim cells, while fierce storms shattered the leaded casements and necessitated hurried and unskilful repairs by the numb hands of the student plumbers...