Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quick Checks & Long Chances. Sauerbruch likes to examine students during automobile trips. Bright students are rewarded with a long ride, but dull ones are dropped along lonely highways...
...free-&-easy approach has paid: the old superstition that businessmen like their news stories dull just isn't so. Last week, having tripled its circulation in six years, the jazzed-up Journal hit a record...
Though the U.S. has yet to feel the full impact of the new silhouette, it was already provoking some violent opinions. The New York Daily News's inquiring reporter served up some samples. Herbert Bayard Swope thought the longer dresses neither revealing nor concealing-just dull. Onetime Cinemactress and Clothes Horse Gloria Swanson said: "They flatter those whose knees do not stand leg-revealing clothes." Look's Mrs. Gardner Cowles: "They make women look long, lean and restricted...
...picture does have bad moments--most of them coming in the unfolding of the love story, which was frail stuff in the novel, too. The hero's adulterous affair, which was originally a succession of mildly immoral, quite dull interludes, has been scrubbed shiny clean by the conversion of the gal into an impeccably, impossibly genteel widow woman. Gable contrives to melt this Pallas Athena, Deborah Kerr, by fondling her tots and growling to her when they are not around, "A weekend in the country with separate rooms and sailboats on the water--that's for us, huh, honey? That...
...medal honors-through the University of Brazil, where he studied medicine and played water polo. After two years at the Bayer Laboratory in Berlin, Germany, and at Johns Hopkins Medical School, he hung out his shingle in São Paulo. But the practice of medicine was slow and dull. He turned to politics and became a strong-voiced deputy in the state legislature...