Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...senatorial law which has no means of effectively restricting the length of speeches by members. It has long been the blight of the senate and on attacking it, in his so-called inaugural address. Mr. Dawes afforded the only bright spot in what was otherwise a very dull day at Washington...
...documents to be carried from one department to another; rationing, by weight, of food in the White House kitchen; replacement of a torn White House flag by a new one, with the understanding that the torn one be mended and used elsewhere. When the President turned in a dull eraser, the stockroom returned it with the comment that no new ones had been provided...
...being written, for a writer with an artistic conscience, is apparently one of the most difficult things imaginable. Doubts assail, characters will not behave, words will not marshal themselves in neat array. It is my belief that, when an author gets over this pain of production, his product becomes dull and profitless. After six years of newspaper work?years which Miss Ferber places ahead of any university courses she might have had?you would think that she could sit down at a typewriter and dash off a novel as a reporter accomplishes an assignment. Not so. For this task...
...Dull Studies, dull Books, I neglect...
...Dull People, dull Folks, I ignore...