Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quiet and almost dull were the Chrysler ceremonies. The Warburg opening achieved drama by the presence of 50 armed policemen, a chain of armored trucks which delivered into the vaults of the bank $850,000,000 in cash and securities...
Anyone who has ever come in contact with President Farrand could not term him "slightly dull." As a speaker he is unexcelled, and his words, both in private discourse and in public oration, are based on a keenly inquiring and thoroughly wise mind, that scorns hypocrisy, narrow mindedness, and complacency...
...heroine finds flying an antidote to dull husband and luxurious ease. Love enters ("flying was her offering to love") -In the end she crashes fatally. But her testimony to aeronautical delights is convincing...
...episodes of his days and nights on the street, not the story of his life. Racing as swiftly as his Packard cab, dodging elevated railroad pillars, circling Central Park, coasting through Greenwich Village, roaring about Hell's Kitchen and along Broadway, his sketches glimpse people mean, kind, tough, luxurious, dull...
Most respectable memoirs are dull: this one is no exception. Abundant with annotation and anecdote, Mrs. Hardy's work is a boon to Hardy scholars, a bore to lay readers. Only relieving element in the volume is the biographer's charitable lack of sentimentality...