Word: dull
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While her club was still swinging, he heard a dull crack. Rosa Ponselle toppled over at his feet. A ball sliced by an unknown golfer had struck her forehead just above the eyes. She was unconscious with a slight concussion of the brain. Nonetheless the woman's unbeaten will to sing which got her vocal lessons, during her Meriden. Conn., poverty, carried her the next evening to sing at Lake Placid for the benefit of the Saranac Lake Society for the Control of Tuberculosis...
Clinton W. Gilbert, still with the New York Evening Post, long iamed for his "Daily Mirror of Washington" (mostly personalities, anecdotes) has grown dull and vague. Perhaps because he is cool to Hooverism, whereas his newspaper is Hoover...
Chrysler-Dodge. In a dull market, common stock of the Chrysler Corp. and preference stock of Dodge Bros., Inc. assumed leadership, soared 10 points in a single session to new high levels for all time. Wall Street debated: Could the Chrysler-Dodge combine threaten General Motors supremacy? Commenting on results of the merger, E. F. Hutton & Co. noted: "Chrysler obtains a second dealer organization of 6,000. It thus becomes the only automobile company in a position to compete with General Motors in the latter's highly successful plan of a separate dealer organization for cars selling in different...
...against it, Marry accepted from the friendly Jew a dull clerical job at the County building. What with one thing and another, he figured that Abe Wise was sobriquet for Gun-Man Steve Gold-Steve Gold of newspaper extras, Steve Gold, spectacular murderer, hounded by rival bootleg gangs. But just as he, Marry, a small town dreamer and poet, was about to be of considerable service to this curious fascinating character, Steve Gold was shot down from a passing sedan. Simultaneously Marry lost his County Cook...
...writes as acutely of women and their "new freedom" as does Author Jameson in Three Kingdoms, has no time to concern herself with men like the naive hero of the present volume. Nat Grimshaw, charming enough in his way, takes himself so seriously that his growing pains alternate dull with exasperating. Knowing nothing of women, Nat is tricked into marrying one of the worst; then goes off to war (the Great War again). When he got home his wife announced herself unfaithful, and wanting a divorce soon-but not till convenient for her lover. Meanwhile she proposed to satisfy...