Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Star," says McKelway, "is an old lady, and it would be unseemly for her to turn a somersault on the Mall. I don't think we're stodgy. Mr. Noyes used to say, 'Let them say we are stodgy and dull. At least, they know that our editorial columns cannot be bought...
Harvard men are brave. Harvard men are unique. Harvard is stimulating, confusing, delightful, depressing, liberal, reactionary, dull, entertaining, ad inflnitum. --F. P. L. Nieman...
...pieces have sent Princess Conchita Sepulveda Pignatelli, pillar of the Examiner's society staff and of local society, flouncing into the editor's office to complain about Lait's irreverent treatment of her friends. The friends were not amused, but the Examiner's tradition ally dull society page was getting more readers...
...clerk at the Algonquin when it opened in 1902, as a West 44th Street neighbor of Sherry's and Delmonico's. Soon he was its manager, then its owner. As such, he had no use for the social register or big bank accounts. They made for dull company. He was determined "to get the Arts." He got what he wanted by providing the Arts with good food, reasonable bills which didn't always have to be paid promptly, and with his own unfailing urbanity...
...term congressional elections can be pretty dull affairs when there is no presidential contest to whip up enthusiasm for platforms to accentuate party differences. The coming elections in November promise no deviation from this tradition. Despite some introductory fanfares and blatant hog-calling at state conventions, indications are that both major political parties are resolved in giving the public a rather murky presentation of the basic issues at stake...