Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Officially, Europe's gypsies were to be liquidated as a political and social menace to the German State. But to Rudolf Hoess* their innocent arrival at his camp was always excellent private entertainment. Life at Oswiecim had grown rather dull. True, Hoess had the satisfaction of having built up Oswiecim from a mere Polish artillery barracks to Germany's most up-&-coming death camp. And of course he could always find some amusement at the gas chambers, the first three of which he had constructed himself with great pioneering ingenuity...
Washington's Lieutenant Governor Victor Aloysius Meyers, ex-bandleader who once campaigned wrapped in a sheet with a goat at his side (TIME, March 18), got the voters' comments on his latter-day habiliments of dullness and dignity. Dull & dignified William F. Devin, incumbent, beat Vic's striped pants off-in an election to decide which would be Seattle's next Mayor. The score: Devin...
...bewildered. Said one first-nighter solemnly: "It's something you have to digest." Said another: "I don't try to understand it; I'm an old Saroyan man myself." But on at least one point a dowager was quite firm: "The love interest is very dull, indeed very dull, certainly very dull indeed...
Even more shocking to the Bean-Rechettis is Tilli's next love, a U.S. singer who brags that he is virginal. Once that disorder is cleared up, Tilli marries him. She soon leaves him for dressmaking with Mother in Manhattan. Tilli (now divorced) is about to marry a dull but rich fiancé when the dipso-and-nymphomaniac wife of the artist whom Tilli really loves dies in the nick of time. So she marries the artist...
Much of the book is dull. Most of it is silly. And the publishers, having blurbed it "a Quaker Constant Nymph," hope that most readers will swarm to it like crabs to gamy bait...