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Word: dulled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dull buzzing stirred the sleepy Vagabond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

That winter tissue which was dull and dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

Before a holiday. . . . The paper's dull...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

Next to Salome's, the most popular of operatic strip teases is that of Massenet's sin-shunning Thais. Because dramatic sopranos with decently strippable figures are rare, and because Massenet's music and drama are otherwise soupy and dull, Thais is nowadays seldom performed. Greatest of all Thais strippers was famed Diva Mary Garden, who introduced the part to the U. S. in 1907; last at Manhattan's Metropolitan was tempestuous Maria Jeritza, 13 years ago. Last week the Metropolitan revived Thais, in one of the most lavishly costumed productions of its recent years. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Program Notes | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...with insignia and wings without-forming the background of almost every scene, they add the only element of color to an insipid "Wings of the Navy," currently at the Metropolitan. Built around a trite story of two brothers in a naval flying school, the picture contains little acting, a dull script, and slowly paced direction. Olivia DeHavilland, apex of the now-winged eternal triangle, has nothing to do except be ornamental; John Payne, who wins the girl from George Brent and sells the airplane (replete with wings) to the government, makes the most of an exceedingly limited role. Only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/16/1939 | See Source »

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