Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chris was a good lad, according to the dim lights of his submerged world. Married seven years, father of two, and still in love with his Anne, he thought himself in luck to have a steady job as stoker on a transatlantic liner, to spend one blissful week at home out of every hard month. It never occurred to his simple mind, nearly as calloused as his hands, that Anne might not be contented as he was. His boozy father-in-law hinted, neighborhood gossip spoke plainer, Anne herself as good as told him that something was wrong. The most...
...ANGEL OF THE ASSASSINATION? Joseph Shearing?Smith & Haas ($2.75). The French Revolution had already passed through its stages of exaltation, flowery speeches and grandiose proposals, when in the hot summer of 1793, Charlotte de Corday sat in a dim house in Caen, embroidering on a piece of silk the question: "Shall I, shall I not?" A cool, gracious, studious maiden of 24, she was asking herself if she should assassinate Jean-Paul Marat, President of the Jacobins, diseased, crippled, doomed fanatic who called himself "the rage of the people." The mood of ecstasy that Charlotte de Corday, as a follower...
That this state of affairs should exist for students on probation is bad enough, but that it should exist for those in good standing who have committed no sins at all is doubly exasperating. There is a numerous but inarticulate body of broken-spirited, grumbling upperclassmen, who inhabit the dim confines of Hotel Cleverly and Dudley who roam the streets in search of some pitying friend who will condescend to allow them to eat a meal in the unattainable splendor of a house dining room. At one stroke they have been cut off from one or the chief practical pleasures...
...lights begin to dim over Europe, for the second time in thirty-five years, there is one ray of hope: that when the present militarism has run its logical course, the entire Fascist doctrine will be discarded for good and all. Sooner or later Europeans must learn that no one man is great enough to wield wisely the power that has been assumed by Mussolini and Hitler. Until bitter experience has taught this lesson, Europe can know neither peace nor progress...
...dim Los Angeles dawn, she climbed into her black & silver Lockheed Orion, lumbered into the air, sped to New York in 13 hr., 34 min., 5 sec. Mrs. Putnam's non-stop record, made in 1932, went down by 5 hr., 29 min. Miss Ingalls probably would have beaten the men's non-stop record of 13 hr., 27 min.† if her radio compass had not broken down near Columbus...