Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while lounging around a hotel lobby, a lush-bearded young man from New Hampshire named Nehemiah Kenison met a Scotsman who had a new, painless method of removing corns. Instead of digging with a scalpel, he first softened the corn in acid, then carefully shelled it out with a dull bone blade...
...come from the "right kind" of family, you'll be asked to kick in with some dough for the various sub-deb subscription dances, the minor leagues of the deb party circuit. They're on the dull side, and early, and feature no drinking. House dances are O.K. if you go with some friends, but not many Freshmen do. Girls' college dances are aabout the best fun; the Statler and Copley are the conservatively correct places to go dancing after football games, but they're pretty stuffy...
...means dull are Pearson & Allen's trained seals. Outspoken about wealthy industrial fifth columnists was Attorney General Jackson; blunt Lord Lothian adlibbed his eight-minute spot to eleven minutes in discussing Great Britain and the war. Pearson & Allen wind up each show with a rataplan of predictions and inside tips, which they are careful to make different from those in their column. Sample scoops: that Roy Howard was "the one exception" mentioned by the President in speaking of those who agreed to serve in National Defense; that Aluminum Co. of America would sign with the U. S. to produce...
...Roosevelt made his way to a dungeon-like room in the basement that was once used for diplomatic receptions and is now used for radio broadcasts. He sat at a table facing microphones and a small group of friends and White House employes. The night was hot, with the dull, moist heat of Washington midsummer that settles like a tangible weight on the city. The President took off his coat and in a 32-minute speech accepted the Democratic nomination for a Third Term...
Alben Barkley's dull roar died away. In its stead, for a long moment during the Democratic Convention last week, there was only the manifold murmur of the crowd in the Chicago Stadium. The sweating, shuffling, staring thousands had just heard Franklin Roosevelt's inconclusive message that he could be had (see p. 9), wondered what would happen next. Suddenly the loudspeakers clustered above the delegates came alive. A voice thundered...