Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defense. Apple-Knocker Byrd's crack about "juggling" the books seemed a good crack to some people, even if his worries about the dim future seemed pretty dim. One worm Byrd pounced on: throughout normal peacetime years, Army & Navy were doled out about $700,000,000 annually. These normal expenditures were this year transferred to emergency defense by Mr. Roosevelt...
Jacketed in speckled Biedermeier wallpaper, Will You Many Me? is a little bundle of letters of proposal rifled from the dim attic of the past. It makes a sentimental hour's reading less jumbled and so more satisfying than M. Lincoln Schuster's recent 563-page Treasury of the World's Great Letters. Editor Frau Scheu-Riesz groups her letters according to the architectural styles of their periods (Baroque, Rococo, Colonial, etc.) which she thinks they mirror. Scraps from the bundle...
...breed better books the club itself has whelped 97 masterfully made volumes on bookmaking and bibliography, has built the best reference collection on the subject in the U. S. Its dim library of some 27,000 books-about-books. guarded by busts of Ben Franklin and other great printers, is open to the public. At monthly meetings members shoptalk of first editions and Renaissance engravings, entertain each other with addresses on "Pope as a Letter Writer," "Benjamin Franklin, Traveller," "The Terrible Gustave Dore." Members include Moneymen J. Pierpont Morgan, Owen D. Young, Baron Victor Rothschild, Typographers Frederic Goudy, Bruce Rogers...
Like Chaucer and Somerset Maugham, Werfel himself sits in a dim corner in the role of storyteller: "I knew Teta. . . . It could never have entered my mind that I should one day attempt to record the history of this old serving-woman who could only barely read and write." Like the Grimms and W. H. Hudson, Werfel suggests the far away and long ago: "Yet now I am sitting here, at a strange table in an alien land, painfully evoking the memory of a world that has been submerged into the past. . . ." Like Scheherazade and O. Henry, Werfel...
...Britain could give no more help and if Turkey continued indefinitely to play wallflower, the Greek cause looked dim, no matter what bravery or what initial successes the Greeks might show...