Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When an executive who has been very keen and capable begins to accept things as they are . . . I can feel very certain that he is tippling out of hours. . . .* Brains . . . are made permanently dull by even the most moderate habitual use, and they vanish altogether in the steady, heavy drinker...
...female cast. The scene is laid in a London dress shop. The story is about a salesgirl who, because-she-likes-nice-things, steals, is detected, repents. For those interested in the inner workings of a dress house this play might have some worth, otherwise it is simply dull. Auriol Lee, as the proprietress, handles her part with considerable dignity and skill...
...people, who would hold the attention of intelligent novel-readers or playgoers. But although the author-who also helped write the play-has reported with infinite care the humdrum speech and actions of her characters, she has failed to make any part of their dull lives seem deeply significant. If, as some critics advised, the ghastly hospital episode were omitted from the play, the drama would never reach any height at all. Roadside is written and played with intense and commendable sincerity. Playwright Lynn Riggs has written the saga of a Texas superman who wears a 10-gal. hat, bursts...
...cinema of the jungle has yet been made. Probably the nearest approach to such a picture would be a composite of the best shots of such good travelogs as this?jungle newsreels which have taken a tremendous amount of time, skill and money to make, but which are inevitably dull for long stretches. Sequences from Africa Speaks which would qualify for inclusion: a swarm of locusts darkening the skies, covering the ground six inches deep, dispersing a herd of gnu, eating all the foliage off a tree; a lion killing a native boy in a scene which (if not faked...
...special representatives, W. Taylor Springer. The railroad was running smoothly. He was satisfied. Western Maryland trains were on schedule over their 875 mi. of track. Engineers, brakemen, switchmen, signalmen were on the job. The road's car-loadings were keeping up at a remarkable rate. During the past dull nine months, gross had dropped only...