Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help the proposed committee in its task, some 400 Canadians had already sent flag designs, ranging from dull to weird, into Ottawa (see cut). Most of them favored a maple leaf. Other ideas: a beaver, a fir tree, wheat, the French fleur-de-lis, stars, miniature Union Jacks, a design like the U.S. flag, with a stripe for each of the Dominion's nine provinces. CCFer Gladys Strum proposed a flag picturing "a buffalo, a beaver, a maple leaf and a mountain. Yes, and we had better have a river...
Burdened by a book that gets it off to a slow start, "The Day Before Spring" is talky and dull in the first scene but the music and dancing make up for the book's faults...
Virgil Thomson: Five Portraits (Phila delphia Orchestra, Virgil Thomson conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). The com poser's five friends (among them Pablo Picasso, Conductor Alexander Smallens) can't be as dull as his musical sketches of them. Performance: good...
...Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers. "The most famous of all lawsuits in fiction is Bardell v. Pickwick for breach of promise of marriage. . . . Don't be discouraged by the dull opening chapter...
...comic fantasy, That Night With You tries to disengage itself from the world by the sheer force of its implausibility. After 84 minutes of such escape, most audiences will be content to return to reality, no matter how dull...