Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best Keller anecdotes concern Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), her close friend. Clemens and Humorist Finley Peter Dunne were discussing Miss Keller when Dunne exclaimed: "God, how dull it must be for her. every day the same and every night the same as the day!" Said Clemens: "You're damned wrong there; blindness is an exciting business, I tell you; if you don't believe it, get up some dark night on the wrong side of your bed and your house is on fire and try to find the door...
...remarkably leisurely, tranquil play, with none of the rapid pace and high tension upon which many productions rely for their effect. Coming like an old-fashioned waltz in the midst of a jazz program, it takes a little while to become adjusted and for some may seem slow and dull. But for those who can make the transition, there is beauty and wisdom in store...
...Exchange re-opened there were more sellers than buyers but none were frenetic. Toward noon prices climbed, then dropped again. In general stocks closed lower than Thursday. U. S. Steel closed at 180, Radio at 43¼, General Motors at 45¼. The market except at the very opening was dull as though it were tired. But it seemed to rest securely. Stock Exchange Governors ordered the Exchange closed after 1 o'clock Wednesday, Thursday, Friday; all day Saturday. Tuesday was a legal holiday (election day). Thus was further rest insured...
Hermann Oelrichs, rich Manhattanite, six months ago offered $200 for the best gallows speech of a prisoner sentenced to death for taking a drink. Last week he said that he had received some 5,000 manuscripts, all "dull"; that the offer was "just a Roman holiday sort of joke," that "the affair died a natural death. I thought everyone understood that...
Cambridge may seem a trifle dull today. There will be no bands marching through the Square and Anderson Bridge will carry only it's normal load of hurried pedestrians. But in Ann Arbor the trumpets will be sounding and the crowds thronging the streets while the Crimson provides a spectacle and social event which has furnished the university town with gossip and expectation for the last few months...