Word: dulled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most social orders, to be conventional is to be dull, to be unconventional is to be damned. Out of the fears of the dull and the struggles of the damned springs Fashion, full-armed, and Gossip, first instruments of human culture and advancement. That these necessities have found a spokesman on Beacon Hill is a subject for congratulation. Such literature flowers from the good sub-soil of snobbery, without which no society could exist, a pale flower, but unquestionably an orchid...
Whenever Englishmen have spent a dull evening at the theatre or have sat down to a plum pudding only to find it has too much baking soda, they are apt to speak of King John. They are a great people, the English, and they have long memories, but they lose their perspective all too frequently in the maze of their personal love or hatred. In a comfortable way they think of King John as a potty beggar who through some physiologic error had been born to exist without a heart...
...Church Mouse. Some doubt exists as to whether all Hungarian plays not written by Ferenc Molnar are originally dull, or if their dullness is due to the unerringly wooden touch of Frederick & Fanny Hatton who adapt most of them to the U. S. stage. Last month Laszlo Fodor's I Love an Actress was presented in Manhattan. Like an interesting photographic landscape, it had form and pattern but no color. Equally lifeless is A Church Mouse, another load of Fodor which relates the story of a drab little girl who has cunning enough to persuade a rich...
...come from destitute families. Year ago, teachers helped pay for many a 10? lunch which the schools served to their pupils. Now, the teachers have trouble enough keeping themselves fed. Last fortnight the Chicago Tribune discovered that many children are undernourished. They faint in class, become ill, are dull and weak. With a series of throbbing stories, the Tribune began a campaign to raise $300.000 for a Hungry School Children Fund...
Election day was not dull. Expecting trouble, workmen early spread yellow sand over Santiago streets so that charging cavalry should not slip. The Government mobilized the full force of 18,000 mounted gendarmes and sent them picking their way over the sand about as heavily armored as any policeman could be: a long lance in one hand, a sabre at the saddle bow, a rifle across the back, a pistol...