Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have a streak of Alexandre Dumas in him, but most of them would no more expose it than be caught jitterbugging. Samuel Shellabarger, who died in 1954 at 65, had no such qualms. Years as a Princeton English professor and as head of a girls' school failed to dim his passion for writing cloak-and-dagger fiction (Captain from Castile, The King's Cavalier), a passion that was further inflamed by 1,000,000-copy sales and nods from the Literary Guild...
...speaker at the Democratic convention, Clement hopes that his stem-winding, evangelistic style of oratory will inspire the delegates to nominate him for Vice President, and last week he tactfully sought fatherly preconvention advice from Mr. Democrat Harry Truman in Kansas City. Clement's chances for 1956 are dim, but his Democratic future, at 36, is bright...
Prospects for a quick end to the walkout seemed dim, though Government-inspired negotiations were expected to continue this week in Manhattan. Despite the deadlock, the National Industrial Conference Board found one bright note: the settlement, when it comes, should produce a new fillip to the economy. The board recalled that the eight-week steel strike of 1952 "produced a strong, but relatively short-lived, boom" as manufacturers built up their inventories, and a strike of similar or less length in 1956 "could well produce the same results again. However unfortunate a steel strike may be on other grounds, most...
Antonia Fleming is beautiful; her husband Conrad is brilliant, but as a schoolmaster once wrote on his report, "bloody-minded." Antonia holds a dinner party to celebrate the engagement of her dim son, Julian, to an even dimmer girl. Her daughter Deirdre, pregnant by one man, is about to marry another. Antonia's husband has moved elsewhere. Antonia is found at her dinner table with her devoted maid clearing away from the table the service her husband will never use again, and mooning mistily on a possible affair with a tall, thin intellectual type. It is a situation...
...education grow proportionately to his infusions of "white blood." With the aid of some 387 books, pamphlets and articles listed in his bibliography, Author Furnas raps the ghostly knuckles of Mrs. Stowe. Though Goodbye to Uncle Tom sometimes lapses into a footnotational frenzy of Ph.Dimensions, that rarely seems to dim a highlights' history of U.S. slavery that is chockablock with information most Americans have either forgotten or never knew...