Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest is advertising history. Benton, a whiz-bang salesman, snagged accounts from General Foods and Procter & Gamble. Bowles concentrated on market research, thought up radio ideas like the old Maxwell House Showboat (first big-time program with continuity of characters and scene), helped a despairing comic named Fred Allen dull his satire so that radio audiences could understand...
...writing. . . . The reportorial and editorial aspects of radio [on V-E day] were superb. But when an acknowledged master of the art ... got to work on the same stuff, he was dull, windy, opaque, pretentious, and in the end, false...
Last week, after looking into the gaunt and dull-eyed face of liberated Europe for six months, the "nationalities editor" of the Cleveland Press came home. As gently as he could, in lectures and in print, Theodore Andrica would describe that haunting face to the "foreign" two-thirds of Cleveland's population, gathered in mass meetings, schools, churches, parlors. The Czechs, Serbs, and Slovenes would be grateful for news, however tragic, from the homeland. But sometimes it would be hard to look them...
During the dull, dragging, off-duty hours in the South Pacific, pilots in the Marine "Red Devil" squadron killed time with long bull sessions. When they talked of postwar plans, Captain Kendall Everson always had the" same answer: "I'm going to start an airline." His tent mate, Captain Gerard Ray, liked the idea, often argued its merits with Captain John Daugherty, who thought it overambitious...
...rowdy Denver Post is a lady with a shady past. For most of her 53 years she was the gaudy consort of a river gambler and a barkeep, helped make them both multimillionaires. But for the last 13 years, having outlived them and their time, she has found life dull. Last week the aging hussy of Champa Street took a tardy fling at respectability, snatched herself a new kind...