Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boot coverage of the theatrical profession's wide and generous war activity, from Times Square to Hollywood. The film covers a little too much: the production of the various Army & Navy film units may or may not be worth seeing, but fleeting glimpses of the units themselves are dull...
...Imagine how dull it is in once of those vacuum tubes--there's nothing in there at all. When he finally let me out, he got me going back and forth in a coil so fast that I got dizzy and got into a gas tube by mistake...
...Louis, Zoo Director George P. Vierheller, who once took a chimpanzee to dinner in Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania, added more monkeys, trained dogs and another pony to his famed chimpanzee circus, featured for years in dull-week newsreels. (The chimps ride unicycles, dance the rumba, form a band which plays America, in a way.) He also expanded his performing elephant troupe to five, taught the pachyderms to play baseball (they already "shave" each other, "pass out" in a drinking scene). Vierheller's top act: the fortnightly feeding of two pythons, which have whole ground rabbits stuffed down their...
With the technical advice of three grownups, J.A. members rotate the dull jobs and the executive ones, decide the relative merits of expansion v. current dividends, ponder how to stay solvent (they rarely go broke). In peacetime they concentrated on gadgets-cigaret boxes, desk sets, junk jewelry, garden furniture. War hit them with just about all the troubles that plague their elders, except contract renegotiation and absenteeism (which is rare, since the six to twelve hours of weekly work is fun at wages that run up to 35? an hour...
...reporters folded up and went away. Glamor peeled off, the big house on R Street looked like an old coat of paint. The tantalizing dinners, the high-blown conversation turned as sour and dull as their host's description of them. James Porter Monroe was nothing but dull proof once again that anyone with a fast line, some stationery, a telephone, an expense account, can fool Washington. He did not know his way around; he had no influence. Washington bigwigs went to his house because they are always going to somebody's house. Washington reporters knew all this...