Word: dull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot, with a little rearrangement, might easily serve for an Italian opera of the verismo school. It resolves around a second-rate traveling strong man and his strange, dull-witted assistant and concubine. A tightrope walker laughs at the strong man and is kind to his slave, and the strong man kills him. In the end the girl dies, and the strong man is left groveling in remorse on a deserted beach reminiscent of the one where he found...
...Words. Labor M.P. Fred Peart cried that fee-charging education "buys positions of privilege in industry and politics. What's good enough for the dull son of a rich man must be good enough for the brilliant son of the poor man ... I condemn racial segregation; and I condemn social segregation...
...with a child?-No, I'd hit her with a brick.'" Cummings is still hitting his readers with bricks-but also with the flowers and the fancies of a unique lyricism. crazy jay blue) demon laughshrieking at me your scorn of easily hatred of timid & loathing for (dull all regular righteous comfortable) unworlds
...part written for him and does it with a blinding polish. Miss Skinner is funny and of course an accomplished actress, but she's still much better on her own. Walter Abel acts suitably imposed upon as Ritchard's host. Charlie Ruggles makes an interesting character out of the dull role of Miss Skinner's father. The two young people, Dolores Hart and George Peppard, look pretty green next to first-rate comedy people; the girl is particularly stiff, but they are sincere...
Striving to persuade housewives to do more home baking, the Pillsbury Co. has given away more than $1,000,000 in baking-contest prizes, many of them for gooey concoctions that would dull even the sweet tooth of a teenager. Last week, in a pleasant change of menu, the grand prize in Pillsbury's annual national baking contest, held in the ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, was awarded for a scarcely disguised variation on one of the simplest of all desserts, apple dumplings. The winner, whose spicy apple twists* triumphed over such dishes as golden empire torte...