Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clarence Darrow, criminal lawyer: "'I've hardly read a line about it,' said I last week about the Hall-Mills murder case, which I described as dull...
...which might make a stirring novel, instead of a deadly dull, if the characters were convincing. Miss Gale's are incredibly and painfully fictitious. Her style, suffering since Miss Lulu Bett from chronic realism and acute poetic indigestion, is scarcely to be recommended as a model of lucidity to students at the University of Wisconsin, of which she is a Regent. An explanation of her elusive theme may be that Miss Gale has lately been concerned more with spiritualism than with literature...
...dull night and raw", said Thwait...
...with success. For his first 11:30 p. m. show, he presents Pirandello's Man, Beast, and Virtue, at the Garrick Theatre on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday nights. The other current Pirandello play, Naked, might lead theatregoers to suppose that this one from the same pen is also dull, verbose, untheatrical. They will be surprised, for in none of Broadway's numerous playhouses is such a constant, hilarious furor maintained. With hands discreetly hiding the lips that betray unseemly amusement, the audience chortles furtively but distinctly. For this Pirandello play is broad. Sea Captain Petella, a blustering fellow...
...grates all too cognizant of Dickensian tradition in their inconstancy of warmth and books often encumber the knees of gentle souls who prefer their own lamp light to the colder luminaries of the winter heavens. No better book for such a purpose, no more delightful, distinguished, and never dull--to be precise, let's suggest that David McCord is an excellent essayist in the Hazlitt manner with a touch of Benchley at his best...