Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of Mr. Hoover's entourage had again to regret that the country was too dull-witted to understand Herbert Hoover, or that he was not sufficiently articulate to make himself clear at the first try. Practical politicians, on the other hand, regretted that Mr. Hoover had not recognized in the Report a beautiful magic carpet for 1932; that he had first nailed it down Dry so that it could not fly, then damaged it more by trying to pull out his nails...
...Neil: "The fund will be used primarily to finance out-of-season sales. ... It will also provide money which may be loaned to any of our employes who may be temporarily laid off. ... Workers who need their wages in winter months will be given more steady employment through that dull period. . . . We do not regard this as a philanthropic move nor do we have any intention of indulging in any crack-brained theories. It is simply a matter of good business." General Tire & Rubber Co., fifth in its industry,* is the personal creation of President O'Neil. Born...
Philip Goes Forth from his father's $5,000,000 business to New York to write a play and eventually finds out that he could not write a good play even if he wanted to. That is what this play proves with much dull harangue. It was written by George Kelly (Craig's Wife, The Torch Bearers, The Show-Off ). Here he presents a lodging-house collection of sad artistes mothered by a landlady who was once a great actress. They are mildly droll, mildly tragic, but Playwright Kelly could be accused of conceit in supposing that...
Still, nobody knew much about her. Metropolitan debuts have been dull lately. Coloraturas are out of vogue and newsmen had not thought it worth their while to find out that this new one was married to a Dutchman almost twice her age, that her father, a violinist, had earned a certain notoriety by motoring from Cannes to Paris and back when automobiles were practically unknown. After Lucia they changed their minds. Lily Pons, they found out then, was not big-chested and chunky like most Lucias. She was fragile-appearing as befits an opera heroine who must die of grief...
...steals the fine clothes of the richest conspirator. He fights a duel with a young Yankee in which, reversing the role he played in his affair with Alexander Hamilton, he fires into the air. He postures elegantly, makes desperately winning speeches, executes paltry and artful stratagems, yet remains dull - a character falling halfway between life and fantasy. In spite and perhaps because of the glittering flood of language poured over it, Colonel Satan is too far from the idiom of the modern theatre to be satisfying entertainment...