Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Court. In the dim court of Assizes, in Paris, during the past fortnight, more than 400 spectators saw the beginning and the end of one of the most gruesome, bloodcurdling, impassioned trials ever to be held in that vaulted hall of justice. Quivering flappers sat to gasp with astonishment beside white & black bearded Jews who exchanged shocked glances with flat-faced Slavic Ukrainians under the noses of red & black-robed judges. Within and without the courtroom was a triple guard of gendarmes to prevent disorder...
...words, impressed themselves on my mind, as distinctly as if I had heard, seen, inhaled or otherwise experienced the same thing already; as though this place or that place, which actually I was seeing for the first time in my present existence, had met my eyes in some dim past...
...Crimson flying in victory over the lecture hall is not all that could be desired by a crowd returning from the Stadium. A university may be justly proud of its rank in scholastic groups, but as high a place in the field of athletics need not dim the light of intellectual achievement nor vitally affect the greater glory of the mind...
...school; had edited Good Words, the prison newsmagazine; never, during his sentence, did Warren T. McCray, a proud man, allow his wife or any member of his family to visit him. When told of his parole, the one-time Governor had wept for a few minutes and then, in dim fashion, had begun to gather his possessions. Now he declared to reporters as he boarded a train for Indianapolis: "This is the happiest day of my life. ... I don't know what I'll do yet. . . . Right now I just want to be happy...
...stood That day you finished it so long ago And looked upon your work and called it good. I know that others find you in the light That's sifted down through tinted window panes, And yet I seem to feel you near tonight In this dim, quiet starlight of the plains. I thank you, Lord, that I am placed so well, That you have made my freedom so complete ; That I'm no slave of whistle, clock or bell, Nor weak-eyed prisoner of wall and street. . . . Let me be easy on the man that...