Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crawled into a taxicab from which he presently emerges to enter the Casino just after its guests have survived the shock of the holdup. All this assorted violence, sometimes tragic, sometimes farcical, makes Central Park a thoroughly diverting, wholly unreliable portrait of an environment which most small children find dull because it contains nothing more dangerous than rocks, squirrels and bad-tempered nurses...
...usually knows when he is going to get an attack of migraine. He begins by feeling lackadaisical. His whole body droops. Eyes grow dull. He cannot think clearly or quickly. He knows when his migraine attack is about over, when he begins to be nauseated. After vomiting the victim is free from sick headaches for a time...
Higher institutions of learning might probably consider an extension into the realm of maternity. When "Bacchanalian Arts 1a, 1b, 1d," grace dull course indexes, Universities may find a way to fill the cup of learning. "Fat rats, thin rats, scrawny rats" will throng after the elusive flute. "Heaviside Calculus" and "Molecular Forces" possess a soporific charm all their own, but who can foretell the rush of "black rats, white rats, and brown rats," to worship at the feet of a seer who could outline the indefinable incompatibility of champagne and muligataway...
...advertised its contents; the Vagabond contemplated this seriously, but he remembered that it would be filled with cynical bad taste and journalisic perversions of the English language; this was no day to make allowances for a Yale education; Time was passed in judgment. Then there was that magazine in dull green; the Vagabond could taste bad gin, and the contents of the monthly revolted...
...Republican floor leader for five years his only speech was: "I move that the Senate do now adjourn." But the Vice-Presidency and the Mayflower Hotel worked a great change in him. He took his job with utmost seriousness. He ceased to be the friendly backslapper. He began making dull pompous speeches on all public occasions. Declared Vice President-elect John Nance Garner...