Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...films, would rather be on his country estate in England than anywhere. He undertook his own production of Hamlet to escape for a turn the shackles of the strictly commercial theatre. To support him he imported some middling Britons, including pretty Pamela Stanley as Ophelia, who would not dim the Howard brilliance. Unfortunately, this time there was no brilliance...
...days when young people learned memory-gems, instead of knock-knocks, there was one which comes to mind today- "Judge not . . . the working of his inmost heart thou canst not see. What seems to our dim eyes a flaw may only be a scar, brought from some well fought field where we would only faint and yield...
...William Powell, Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, and Myrna Loy, and make those four stars revolve in concentric orbits, some kind of story had to be concocted including, in the above order, a combination of masculinity and dapper suavity, an untamed creature inducing and abounding in excessive primitive passion, a dim-witted but competent piece of virility, and a chilly aristocrat who's a warm little girl after...
...syphilis and that this disease and its peculiar transmission were referred to in the Second Commandment: For I the Lord Thy God ama jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. The Greeks, in a dim, foggy way, described ailments contracted by unclean intercourse. The Romans were among the first to develop a sense of shame in connection with venereal diseases and said as little about them as possible.* As the Dark Ages settled down on Europe, syphilis was lumped with leprosy and other skin troubles...
Indirectly casting doubt on the purity of Adams' motives, sophisticated Author Miller shows him as tenacious, wily, audacious, gives only a dim suggestion of the forces that inspired him in both his persistence and his cleverness. Born in 1722, Sam Adams was the son of a prosperous Boston brewer and merchant, studied at the Boston Latin School and Harvard. He was drawn into politics after quick failures in a counting house and in his father's business, did his first political writing anonymously at the age of 26. Caught up in the great religious revival...