Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...results that he dubbed him Walter, after Wagner's hero. The name stuck and young Schlesinger formally adopted it, perhaps because he guessed that the more obviously Jewish name would be a handicap. Anti-Semitic feeling did drive him out of Munich once but it could not dim his reputation as a great interpreter of Haydn, Mozart and the French composers. He has since had big successes all over Europe, in London, at the Hollywood Bowl in 1929, after his Manhattan experience had taught him something of the U. S. public...
Said His Holiness last week: "Material light has not been lacking in the place from which spiritual light spreads to the world, but it has been dim. It is now multiplied in a worthy and satisfactory manner to correspond with new needs...
...approaching week-end will bring Preparatory School delegates to a conference engineered by the Phillips Brooks House in an effort to show the neophytes what college is all about. For long years the University has doubtless appeared dim and distant, and the program will bring the gathering in direct contact with reality...
...Alabama and niece of Alabama's new Senator John Hollis Bankhead, returned to the U. S. after eight consecutive years of playing on the London stage. Said she: "Oh, Englishmen are divine! Just divine! But I have seen and been with them so long the perspective gets dim. Now that I am away, I see Englishmen as even more divine than when I left them...
...them. In that mind's eye of his that has enfolded so much nebulosity, the Vagabond at rest watches with the sad sublimity of a Greek stoic the passing of Harvard into tabloid education, the riveting of its density to gilded monuments of steel and brick. In the dim light that gleams through the halos of its many Saints, he watches Bluebooks and blaming youth ruffie the innocuous desuetude of Memorial Hall. In both new and old, he sees halfbaked meats and widow's weeds coldly furnishing the Examination table. It is not remarkable that he looks forward with...