Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike its regular musicales, the "Jinks" are held in secret and the guest list is limited. The festival is a series of musical entertainments, beginning with the ceremonious "Burial of Dull Care," ending with the "High Jinks" a musical play composed, staged, sung by members. Though the "High Jinks" are the climax of the festival, many members consider the "Burial of Dull Care" the most impressively beautiful ceremony. While the moon splashes ghostly shadows through the grove, a funeral procession moves under redwood branches huge as an oaktree's bole, carrying along the effigy of "Dull Care," playing slow...
...Virginia von Echtzel Wendel was hardly in her grave before heirs far from apparent began to clamor for a slice of the fortune which old John Gottlieb Wendel had founded in the fur trade and then grounded in Manhattan. Whole European villages claimed Wendel blood. From Brooklyn came a dull-witted housepainter who, as the self-styled son of the last male Wendel, laid siege to the whole estate, was sentenced to jail for conspiracy. One by one Surrogate Foley eliminated 2.,294 claims. After eleven months of spectacular hearings four fifth-degree relatives settled...
...went, until one dull afternoon last week when into the press room in the basement of the Geological Museum walked none other than James Ramsay MacDonald, president of the Conference. To the Press it was an unexpected honor. But Scot MacDonald quickly made it plain that he had come not to honor the Press but to scold it. Calling the reporters around him, Mr. MacDonald wagged his finger at them and began...
Last week the school board was hailed into court. A taxpayers' association was seeking to oust six of its seven members on charges of financial irregularities, including failure to advertise for bids, violation of the school code, contracting illegally for teachers. Dull and petty were the dealings disclosed. But a passage in Michael Wolohowicz's testimony made news. All he knew about his job as treasurer was that he signed checks, carried money to and from the bank. He could neither read nor write-or, at least, very little. Said he, at the quiz: "I have to talk...
...uncle, who lets him swim in a cold brook and then leads him and his little cousin, wreaths of weeds in their hair, in a wild dance to the music of a concertina across broad sunny fields. At home the routine is monotonously wretched. His thieving older brother and dull sister, the mother's favorites, get the melon. He is allowed to gnaw the rinds before being sent to feed them to the rabbits. He is abused for answering a question with bread in his mouth, laughed at for being afraid of the dark. The child's torture...