Word: dull
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uninformed, en aura of most ordinary simplicity-something to be patronizingly smiled upon by those whose assumption of superiority varies directly as their utter ignorance of what the game really is. To most persons, not particularly those in custodial care, the game of checkers is a more or less dull affair, in which one should: 1) try to take two for one or three for two; 2) try to cement the opposing forces in such manner that one's opponent is physically unable to make a move (calomel and dynamite to the contrary, not withstanding), etc., etc. ad nauseam...
Sunday has benerally been a dull day for the Vagabond. In the days of childhood, the seventh day was associated with interminable and dreary calls on friends of the family, where an incredibly hard and stiff-backed chair was usually provided for him, from which perch he was left to contemplate the family portraits while his elders discussed matters beyond his ken. Now that such ordeals are done, the Sabbath passes in a flaccid mood that contenplates and condemns all things, particularly those of an academic tinge. There is scant pleasure in a contemplation of Monday's lecture schedule...
...indecent, Colonel Wedgwood leaped up and shouted: "No sir! You are all wrong. Beware that you do not plunge us from the American whirlpool into the French cesspool! Perhaps I shouldn't put it like that. But let's get away from the idea that American films are immoral. Dull they may be. Sentimental, sloppy 'sob stuff' you do get from America. But immorality never...
Twenty-three and a quarter centuries ago, a short, grotesque man, thicknecked and paunchy with flat nostrils and thick lips stood trial for his life. He had a shrill-tongued wife; by her, three "dull and fatuous" sons. His father was a sculptor, his mother a midwife. But he had been soldier, statesman, teacher; he was Socrates, the greatest liberal of his age. In Athens, 500 judges heard the accusations brought by Meletus, the poet; Anytus, the tanner; and Lycon, the orator. The accusation ran: "Socrates is guilty, firstly, of denying the gods recognized by the state and introducing...
Stimulated prospects produced their dimes, encountered a dull but comprehensive survey of theatre censorship in Manhattan-which genteelly referred to the three recently attacked plays but did not mention them by name.* The article made such conclusions as: "It is possible that both sides were right. . . . Perhaps, after all, New York does not care particularly what happens." And then the nice old ladies and other dime spenders read an editorial entitled, "Part Men, Part Goats," by Barton Wood Currie, who came from the New York Evening World to the Country Gentleman and from there in 1920 to edit the Ladies...