Word: dull
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...almost forgotten the strangest thing I heard at the exhibition. A lady complained that all the types were alike: There was no variety, all the colors were dull, all the landscape equally mournful. Now this is actually to condemn not merely individual consistency of mood but the consistency in spirit of an entire nation throughout the ages. Did she expect Spain to cast off her mourning and giggle? Did she seek for a soda fountain in Segovia? Did she want the devil on the church steeple? If she did I call her a fool, if she did not I place...
...rather hasty characterization, a supply of aged "laugh-getters" in business, and the adept handling of a well-schooled cast. Miss Tempest's delightful sense of humor, and unfailing ability to squeeze every drop of comedy out of a situation or line livens much that would be otherwise drearily dull. Mr. Browne is a sincere, politely humorous hero, and unheard of as it is for a stage hero--seems entirely a gentleman. The life below-stairs is well drawn and most capably acted. Miss de Becker, as the slavey, has a most unusual and agreeable comedy personality. Her work...
...number is no less varied. Mr. Clark's "In the Blue Sea Cavern," with its irregular metre and sparing use of rhyme, amply justifies its form by the fascination of its imagery. Mr. Putnam, in his sonnet, is at pains to ... "Make impassioned sense believe That memory improves my dull today." Mr. Sanger's "Aeroplanes" has a good swing. The "Grotesque" by Mr. Norris contains a good idea, marred at times by a somewhat perfunctory technique. The "Phantasy," by Mr. Willcox, though abounding in color and imagination, is breathless in its movement; it reminds one of the "patter" of comic...
...articles are interesting and pertinent; to quote from their own editorial columns,--"the day when the Illustrated acted as a haven for the thesis type of article, with its dull, monotonous formidable array of facts, has gone by." Those who remember the Illustrated of three and four years ago find it hard to recognize it in its present guise as a lively and diverting pictorial review...
...Handicap games, held before the Intercollegiates. It is known as the "Mansfield Trophy" and has engraved on it the name of the donor, the event for which it is to be awarded, and the meet in which the runners will compete. It stands 12 inches high and has a dull finish. At present it is at the H. A. A. office...