Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goes: Selina Peake, sprite of poverty, married Pervus De Jong, Illinois potato man. No amount of grubbing could deaden Selina. After years of it, she could still stick radishes behind her ear and dance for Dirk, her boy, only "so big." Dirk grew up and trailed off into a dull love-jam involving a nice girl and a naughtyish one. Also, Selina, old and bent, peddled her potatoes on Prairie Avenue, Chicago...
...been able to embellish them with many an observation drawn from his immense knowledge of the period. The reader learns that George I was depressed at becoming King of England, that Lady Suffolk upbraided her royal lover for neglect, that life with the German Georges was not quite as dull from the inside as it appears from the outside...
...some of us a matter of fifteen or twenty dollars may not seem worth bothering about, but it may make all the difference between a good time and a dull time at Christmas for the Infirmary. Those who have been patients there know that its personnel makes the most of every opportunity to cheer up the boys, let us help them. Alex, Chalufaur...
...irreconcilables have been fuming at the Belasco tradition. "I'm going to get something on him. if it takes all season," remarked one. That was last year: and Mr. Belasco came through fairly favorably. This year, the skies have darkened. David Belasco produced Tiger Cats-a dull and savage diatribe against women. He produced The Harem-a. dull and dangerous farce about seduction. Finally, he has produced Ladies of the Evening, a play frankly, almost viciously, pornographic. Cognoscenti assert that Mr. Belasco has fared unfavorably in finance of late. He has turned to the last refuge...
Betty Lee. A moderately dull musical comedy forced into furious and agreeable activity by desperate dancing-that is Betty Lee. A song or two that will serve and Hal Skelly and Joe E. Brown (he has a wide mouth) trying hard to squeeze comedy out of commonplaces-these help occasionally. Most of the singing is discouraging and the costumes something less than smart. There is a plot about a youth who boasted he could run and then was matched against a champion. The huge trousers sers of Mr. Brown are easily the most important feature of the entertainment tainment...