Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experience with the bathtubs of the old Bull Hotel in Cambridge, England. I recently stayed there and largely failed to solve the intricacies of the 18-inch brass and rubber stoppers with the thumb screw attachment in the same three tubs which Mr. Mellon used, and of which the Dull Hotel is justly proud (TIME, Aug. 3). There seems to be no way to manipulate to prevent a slow but steady drain. But the Hull Hotel is one of the best and most comfortable hotels in Cambridge and close to the Senate House where Mellon & Son took degrees together (Benjamin...
...Though dull weather made the New York Yacht Club cruise, like several regattas this year, slightly disappointing, U.S. yachtsmen have enjoyed a lively summer. Instead of racing for the America's Cup, there was the transatlantic race, won by Olin J. Stephens' yawl Dorade which, still in British waters last week, also won the Cowes-Fastnet-Plymouth race. Gales made a majority of the boats in the Fastnet race seek port before the finish; they caused the second death of the year in British yachting when Col. C.H. Hudson, joint owner of Maitenes II was swept overboard...
...Clyde, Actress Sylvia Sidney, whose performance is brilliant, puts just the right intonations in her tiny, memorable speech: "I can't swim." But most of the time the picture wanders about in a maze of poorly acted, disintegrated incident which lacks the cumulative effect of Dreiser's ponderous prose. Dull shots: Phillips Holmes jumping out of a poolroom window when police arrive; smirking at a dance to show how much he likes high life; making bewildered, wooden attempts to seem amorous...
...Selznick-Milestone Pictures, Ltd. Director general of the new company was Lewis Milestone (The Racket, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Front Page). President was David 0. Selznick. At 28, David Selznick has sometimes been described as one of the bright young men in an industry full of dull ones. Reared in a household which was kept awake at night by new and erratic ideas about cinema, he has been full of ideas ever since. His idea when he resigned from Paramount where he had been getting $104,000 a year as assistant to Production Manager Ben P. Schulberg...
...much more than they said-as if I had actually got inside another person's skin." She likes Nebraska: "It's a queer thing about the flat country-it takes hold of you, or it leaves you perfectly cold. A great many people find it dull and monotonous; they like a church steeple, an old mill, a waterfall, country all touched up and furnished, like a German Christmas card. I go everywhere, I admire all kinds of country. I tried to live in France. But when I strike the open plains, something happens. I'm home...