Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...glove filled with wet sawdust . . . kept on ice." One piece of so-called "ectoplasm" ("ectopiffle would be a better name," remarked a surly magician) proved to be a chunk of animal lung. The only "spirit body" that Rinn failed to duplicate was that of a "baby" which, in a dim light, a famous woman medium of the '80s used to permit patrons to kiss: it proved to be her own bosom, painted with a cherubic visage...
Modern history has no more dramatic scene than Wu's speech at Lake Success. The world heard only by dim and dignified hearsay of Hitler raging at statesmen who came to Berchtesgaden; it saw only the absurd arrested motion of Hitler's triumphant jig in the Forest of Compiègne. Millions by television and radio saw & heard Wu spew forth Communism's unappeasable hatred, cloaked in Communism's lies and muscled by Communism's paranoid vocabulary of denunciation...
Several hundred Dartmouth-weekend couples packed the last of the Hutch dances, which are usually known for dim lights and popular bands...
...turn-of-the-century sideshows as a feud between the sons of Balfour's leading family, the sight of the first car on the town's streets, a runaway cutter, balls, belles and sleighbells. None of these trappings quite disguises the fact that Hero Ludar is as dim as a 50-year-old memory and that Son of a Hundred Kings offers, after all, a pretty flat solution of the mystery of Ludar's parentage. A lot of Literary Guild members will be praying for Costain to get back to cloaks & daggers...
...illusion was heightened by the hour of meeting-dawn had just begun to silhouette a great black thundercloud east of Wake Island as the Independence circled for a landing. Even in the dim light, the President could see dozens of Japanese tanks rusting away along the barren beaches. The President's plane landed, taxied past the aircraft that had brought MacArthur (he had arrived twelve hours earlier), Truman's advisers, and 35 stateside reporters and cameramen...