Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Girl Habit (Paramount) is a farce which uses the oldest, most dependable methods for producing hilarity. Whether it succeeds or not depends entirely on the mood and taste of individuals in the audience who will find it i) screamingly funny, 2) rather silly, 3) crazy but dull. It concerns itself with the predicaments and escapes of a young man who seems to have a perpetual case of the jitters (Charles Ruggles). Engaged to marry a debutante with a dignified mother, he is pursued with kindly intent by an ardent blonde (Tamara Geva), later, with less kindly intent, by her gangster...
Cinema audiences stopped believing that all college students were morons several years ago and Confessions of a Co-ed will therefore seem implausible as well as dull. Its dialog, anonymously contributed, is comparable to Mother Goose without rhymes and its campus mise-en-scene suggests the cloisters of a day nursery for retarded adolescents. If anyone can take any interest at all in Confessions of a Coed, it will be because Sylvia Sidney almost manages to make real emotions out of fake situations. One of the many young actresses who have effected a successful transfer from the stage to talkies...
Dementia Praecox. That extreme condition of dull wits and sluggish brain called dementia praecox (adolescent insanity) affects so many people in the U. S. that all the hospitals of the country could not contain them. Roy Graham Hoskins of Boston counted 140,000 in mental hospitals alone. The need for solution of the dementia praecox problem "is exigent," yet it "is being grossly neglected." Signs of this mental disease are constant melancholy and self-absorption. Bad cases behave like very young, helpless children...
Governors' conferences are, by tradition, made as dull and tame as possible by a ban on all "controversial subjects...
...Major Jordan Lawrence Mott, 50, grandson of Jordan Lawrence Mott who founded J. L. Mott Iron Works and became Acting Mayor of New York City in 1879; at Steamboat Station, near Roseburg, Ore. Young "millionaire reporter" in 1910 for a succession of Manhattan newspapers, he found journalism "far too dull," ran off to China with an actress, Mrs. Frances Hewitt Bowne. spent the rest of his days boating and writing novels of outdoor life (Prairie, Sea and Snow...