Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good fellows on the road nowadays, seems like we're getting a better class of hoboes, if you know what I mean.' It was a railroad man speaking. The Burlington railroad yards were hideous with noises of the night, hissing of steam and dull clanging of bells...
...What is the law?" is the recurrent question asked by a republican nation. With deliberate speed-though the summer holidays approach-with majestic instancy, nine remote men make answer in thousands of decisions, mostly technical and dull...
...appeals to the intellect and is scornful of appeals to emotions alone. At times, he may have appealed to the emotions, but back of the appeal has been a motive finer and deeper than mere theatrical appeal. I have seen him talk to farmers and workingmen on a dull subject like the tariff, and he can make the tariff question so dramatic that he will carry his audience along until he works up to the climax...
...There is only one trouble about these stories, and that is that they are not true. . . . They can be accounted for at this time by the fact that Congress has adjourned and news is scarce and dull...
Charles Holyoke, youngest son of a pre-colonial Massachusetts family, was in his third year as a dropped freshman at Harvard. English A had begun to lose its fascination for him; the dining halls had made him a chronic dyspeptic; in short, life was dull. It was at this time that romance came into his life with young Betty Buxom. From the very first kiss they loved each other passionately. Then followed midnight swimming parties at Revere, so gay, so free, so So. One night, however, when they were frolicking about like water babies, Charles discovered to his great grief...