Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...messages; they were also curious to trace certain long distance telephone calls from Boston to obscure places in the Chinese quarters of St. Louis, Cleveland, Chicago, Baltimore, Pittsburgh?calls in which the connection had been requested in carefully articulated English, followed by the rushing speech of a dim voice haranguing in a chant of monosyllables an unseen Oriental a thousand miles away. ... a staccato cry of comprehension. . . . the click of a receiver...
...veteran missionary physician from Siam; Dr. H. C. de Souza-Arujo, Brazilian leper specialist; Dr. George W. McCoy, director of the Hygienic Laboratories at Washington, also addressed the demi-tasses. Their discourse was authoritative, technical, optimistic. They knew that their fellow guests, gentlemen who like them had ministered in dim jungles and remote frontiers to living bodies half liquified by ghastly corruption, were not easily put off their diet by good meat, good talk...
...accustomed itself to the religious dim, it caught the gleam of many a fair garment. There were the snowy ruffs of Danish bishops. Here was a strip of crimson across an Anglican back. There was an emerald twinkling from a Bulgarian chest...
Proudly he went to jail. Proudly Platon returned to the dim Cathedral under the protecting shadow...
...Seabright, N. J. David of Israel, on the day when he sent a round pebble into the dim, appalling brain of Goliath, was doubtless a thin, supple little man like William M. Johnston, onetime (1915, '19) national champion. Johnston's accuracy, in his heyday, was doubtless superior to that of the Israelite champion, but they both made the same appeal to a gallery-the appeal of skill, of courage, hazardously sustained by slight flesh. In 1921, 1922 and 1923, Johnston won the Seabright Lawn Tennis Bowl. Last week he got off a train from Chicago and within four...