Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through these trials and tribulations, Actress Scott gives a graceful performance in the time-hallowed actors' feat of getting old convincingly. The acting performances in Cheers For Miss Bishop are smooth and polished all around. But the story is a" dull record punctuated with some vivid moments. It has at times the musty odor of a family album. It is authentic, but the breath of life...
...incendiary raid provides fun and excitement in the long dull hours of blackout. Last week's two incendiary raids played to big enthusiastic audiences. Crowds gathered to watch and applaud the gyrating figures advancing with their garbage tops held like shields...
Even more modern omens were lacking : no bands of feverish citizens swarmed around newsstands to buy papers whose damp headlines hourly leaped higher and blacker; the radio was dull with soap operas and swing versions of Old Black Joe. On the surface, there was little tension...
...terrible here, Señor. First you must make love to this girl you want until your nose bleeds; second you must make love ... to her mother, her father, the butler, and the parrot, and in the end you must always marry her." The café society set was dull and insolent ("they all but come over to your table to read the labels on your clothes") but some of the transients were good. "Franz Josef's local grandson had some claim to authenticity: his accent was correct, he clicked his heels in the real sloppy Viennese fashion...
...Government press agents who grind out daily releases extolling her virtues, Interior is a dull mistress. Usually they have little more to report than the fact that Fish and Wildlife Service says "the outlook for migratory waterfowl looks, promising." Once in a blue moon, when they get the chance, they go off on a literary bender. Last week the moon was electric blue, and Interior fell off the wagon with a pamphlet called Piscatorial Serenades...