Word: dull
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uprose to tell 150 fellow clergymen of the Atlantic District of the United Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States, sitting in Manhattan, how to preach successful sermons. First he counseled them to "get a good sleep Saturday night," warned them that "a torpid liver produces a dull sermon." To this admonition spry, old Dr. Meyer added four "don'ts" for lively preachers...
Afraid that he would be joshed when he went back to steelwork, Haade insisted that there be three other steelworkers in the play with him. They find the stage dull, dislike the night work. Mr. Geddes would like to keep Haade in the theatre and five cinema companies last week offered him screen tests, which he has not accepted. Unwilling, however, to ruin a perfectly good steelworker. Mr. Geddes is letting his protege choose his own course...
...Inner History of the Grant Administration is an exhaustive, scholarly, 1,000-page volume, based on the huge manuscript diary kept by Fish and containing much unpublished material. No book for hasty readers, it is likely to impress most students as a solid historical achievement, slow-moving but not dull, a biography for those who like facts regardless of the animation with which they are presented...
...that concerns the present generation, to whom it has indeed been more profitable than was ever before dreamed of. As an example of one man who struck when the iron was hot, consider the not inappropriately named Chick Sale. He made a fairly sizeable fortune by writing a rather dull book on nothing more exciting than a privy--it really isn't very exciting--and he sustained it by donning a false beard and making equivocal remarks for vaudeville audiences...
...Waldorf, and two hours to kill before the twelve o'clock. A dash into Widener and check the bibliographies on Fenimore Cooper. A dash to H.A.A.--tickets for Dartmouth game. Back to his Attic and his best suit to Felix's--dinner with the Housemaster tonight. The Class very dull, the Vagabond scribbling little notes on the cover of his notebook...