Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then there is Shirley Temple. Miss Temple is living in the dim illumination of former plaudits. As an eight-year-old song and dance specialist she may have been cute for some; but as an actress she is about as convincing as Pauline in "The Perils...
...Americans obligingly blew out the wall. And there was the gold, each 25-lb. bar wrapped in a sack, each sack tagged: "Reichsbank." There were sacks of gold coin, some of them too heavy for a man to lift. There seemed to be even more gold stacked in the dim-lit, salt-crusted chamber than Vieck had said...
...plainly, fiberless; it balances what is pathetic in the mother's situation with what is comic in her character. But The Glass Menagerie veers off from straight realism to become a kind of mood play, something projected as a "memory." It makes use of a narrator, filmy curtains. dim lights, atmospheric music. All this adds something, on occasion, as theater; but it takes away a good deal as art. A mood that should flow delicately out of the play itself is artificially sprayed over it. Narrators, soft lights and atmospheric music, however, are a lazy man's theatrical...
...From his thirty-first to his thirty-fifth year he had for food six ounces of barley bread and vegetables slightly cooked without oil. But finding that his eyes were growing dim and that his whole body was shriveled with an eruption and a sort of stony roughness he added oil to his former food...
Last fortnight the London Daily Mail raised a furor at home by printing the letter. Last week the Rev. Mr. Priest, an Anglican clergyman from Colchester, took a dim view of all international marriages, including those of U.S. soldiers and English girls. "For example," he mused, "Americans have some funny ideas about cooking...