Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost everyone knows by now, TMWCTD is the tale of a famous crosscountry lecturer who is forced to go to a dull dinner party in Mesalia, Ohio, injures a hip on his hosts' icy steps, and has to stay for weeks. The part, originally created for Woollcott himself, has by this time become at least half Woolley...
...managed to do worthwhile jobs without noise, and even without uniforms. Buried away in secret offices in cities along the seacoasts were the women of the Information & Filter Centers, listening to telephoned reports of aircraft, marking every plane's flight on maps. Their hours were long, their jobs dull, but some day they might be vital to air-raid defense. Some of them were Junior Leaguers, but the majority were stenographers, teachers, young housewives. Boss of these unpaid workers, who slaved without uniforms or froufrou, was the Army...
...understanding of the Japanese than Mr. Hauser," LOOK proceeds to publish an article which would be labeled "humour" if it were not printed at this particular time. "The Japanese is compelled to go through life without romance--which may be why he lacks imagination and is generally such a dull companion," writes our learned "sociologist." "I have seen little boys behave so badly that in America they would have been spanked and sent to bed," he continues. "In Tokyo, everyone looked at their antics with pride and infinite indulgence...
Teachers are 300 officers in Ben Lear's Army, chosen for pedagogical skill and leadership. Their orders: "Ordinary dull academic instruction is to be avoided...
Painted with broad brushwork reminiscent of Georges Rouault's (TIME, Nov. 25, 1940), the show's 58 pictures depicted shadowy landscapes, sprawling human figures colored with the dull sheen of cast iron and stove polish. Weird, mystical canvases, as big as murals, showed mind-wrecking concepts like birth and death. Many, obscurely symbolic, writhed with brilliantly colored male and female figures, with fish and anthropomorphic bric-a-brac in a Freudian Walpurgisnacht...