Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Saturday at the Phi Beta Kappa meeting Mr. Paul Shorey tried modern culture and found it dull. Americans are sexually inept, poets are crude, intellectually the country is dead. As a solace from this tedious period Mr. Shorey looked not to a refreshing dawn in the future, but preferred to gaze longingly at the roseate sunset of a halycon past. Lowell, Longfellow, Holmes, and Emerson are the foundations of American culture the men to whom their countrymen must point with pride...
...affair between a French prisoner (Warner Baxter) and the fiancee of the count's son (Leila Hyams). This nearly turns out badly. Baxter tries to escape and is saved from a firing squad at the last moment. Surrender is an intelligently morbid artifice, occasionally marred by streaks of dull wisecracks...
...Hughes). Howard Hughes let it be known that he was seeking a suitable story for Billie Dove and then devoted a full year to selecting one. The Age for Love, adapted by Ernest Pascal from his own novel, does not seem worth the effort. The story is not offensively dull but it has been told, except for a few details, many times before. It is an imitation problem play, discussing an artificial dilemma in the rhetoric of tedious trivialities...
Billie Dove is a svelte literary agent. She becomes attracted to a dull young man named Dudley Crome (Charles Starrett) because she likes his refreshing ingenuousness, his simple tastes. These simple tastes are what complicate their married life. Crome wants her to stay at home and have a family. She wants to work. Presently they divorce. Crome marries a girl who sees things his way. She has already had a baby when the picture ends but despite this bond, usually infrangible in the cinema, Crome has returned to his first wife, is preparing to remarry her. Cinemactress Dove wears becoming...
...father, President Garfield of Williams said: "He was by nature a teacher. He loved to be with young people, to try out their minds. . . . My memory furnishes me with no record of dull moments. Occasionally our fractious group had to be temporarily broken up. the offending members being retired to the corners of the room, facing the angle...