Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernie Byfield, Chicago hotelman and nightclub impresario (the Pump Room, the College Inn), reached 60, took a dim view of the bistro business: "Nightclubs are like gold mines. For every ten bucks you put in, one buck is extracted . . . Old nightclubs and old streetwalkers are the same. The older they get, the less money they take...
...University took a dim view of losing their undergraduates in such an unpleasant manner. They also didn't appreciate the reputation Princeton was getting as a country club. So Nassau Hall decided to keep their Charlies confined to the banks of Lake Carnegie and banned automobiles on campus...
...deep-chested, dim-witted fashion, Mature loves his wife. But Lizabeth loves nothing but penthouses, stylish parties and Wall Street wolves who, for a consideration, can boost her to success as an interior decorator. Her pushing ways cost Mature a chance for a secure job as football coach at the state college. The job goes instead to his buddy and teammate, Sonny Tufts...
...which he assigned to a neighborhood boys' club. Telegrams and registered letters seemed to have no effect on the manufacturer. He complained to the network, and parts of one gymnasium finally have begun trickling in. Worn out in the scramble to peddle his winnings, Noone took a dim view of the producers of the giveaway show, who had promised to cooperate in collecting the booty. Said he, glumly pondering his bonanza: "They get you into their offices and make you think they're giving you the world on a string-and then they cut the string...
...fine, large-featured, dim-eyed, bronze-coloured, shaggy-headed man is Alfred," wrote Carlyle in 1840, "dusty, smoky, free and easy; who swims outwardly and inwardly, with great composure, in an articulate element as of tranquil chaos and tobacco smoke." Seasoned in the fumes of his own shag, he was also, before he was 35, the veteran of a personal hell from which almost nothing was lacking: a torn and distressful home; the shock and grief of losing his best friend, Arthur Hallam; the cruelty of a sneering review in the Quarterly Review that drove him into nine years...