Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sweet Mama (First National). Because Alice White is the most attractive blonde of her weight in pictures, the scenes in which she appears are bearable, although this whole production is hackneyed, dull and amateurish. It is an unsuccessful combination of the usual elements of underworld plots; its crisis involves Miss White in efforts to get her sweetheart out of a predicament in which she has involved him by gathering evidence against the owner of the night-club where he works. Typical shot: police car chasing the car in which the hero is being taken for a ride...
...body requires a certain amount of common salt. Bromides drive out some of that necessary salt. When the displacement reaches 30%, bromide intoxication develops, closely resembling several other kinds of intoxication. The victim becomes drowsy and dull. His wits wander; his memory fails. He has hallucinations, "frequently of the colored type, such as seeing a Negro man or some dark animal." The well known bromide rash may or may not occur...
Impartial House observers rate him thus: no debating legislator, he has specialized in the dull but important committee work behind legislation. A thoroughgoing "regular" Republican, he follows the lead of his State colleague Floor Leader John Quillin Tilson, exerts his quiet influence at every turn for the benefit of reputable well-established Business & Industry. His term expires March...
Meanwhile natural gas companies, continuing their plans for long-distance natural gas transportation, last week placed with various steel companies orders for more than 300,000 tons of steel. To the steel industry, the pipe line orders have been a bright spot in a dull spring...
...film that lives up to the high standard that these black and white pictures have set in the realm of the talkies. The drawings and musical score are both lively and amusing. In fact it was the most hilarious part of the bill. The other contributions, unfortunately were as dull as ever, the booby prize going to a particularly annoying bit designed to show the beauties of the Sunny South. The final contribution was another so-called organologue, whose only apparent purpose was to make more vacant seats for the feature picture...