Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pictures. Gainsborough's portrait of a young girl in a blue dress with flowers in her hands, flowers in her lap, and a face like a dim sleepy flower, was started at $1,500, raised by three bidders in fast cuts to $20,000, bought by Messrs. Scott & Fowls, dealers. Four more Gainsboroughs were sold for a total of $7,900. Governor Alvin T. Fuller of Massachusetts paid $31,000 for a picture of a girl and some red herrings by Millais.* Goya's portrait of Pepe Illo, a bullfighter of Madrid, brought $25,000. On the third...
With a pomegranate in one hand and a green carnation in my buttonhole I am going to the Semitic Museum at 10 o'clock. Professor Lowes has reached the dim and yeasty 'nineties in English 26, and he will talk this morning on Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, the two gaily mad and sadly gay giants of the fin de siecle...
...Canadian, was a great teacher in the U. S. and England; wrote extensively. Most of these men lived to a ripe old age, to study, heal and teach. Of the moderns, Lister and Morgagni were 85 years old at death. (Hippocrates was either 99 or 73 according to conflicting dim reports of his life.) The youngest to die was Laennec...
...this line reached its climax in your issue of Nov. 16, p. 20, col. 3, when you say, "The thunder that darkly strode from the organ pipes . ..." Ah! that I might have been there to see! Weird, mystic shapes, tremulous, vibrant, sonorous, which "strode" with intangible form down the dim cathedral aisles. Why, friends, I am 77 years old and I haven't had such a thrill (literary thrill) since, at the age of ten, I read about "an arm clothed in samite?mystic, wonderful!" Joking aside, please do not let carping critics persuade you to change or abandon your...
...bury him sadly, at dim twilight...