Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomb-battered city was not the old Vienna. Wrote Gedye: "It was like walking onto a stage where the scenery of some gay Viennese operetta had been dismantled, the vivid costumes of the artists replaced by the dull garb of the scene-shifters. The curtain has fallen on Vienna's operetta existence, and it will be long before it rises again...
...make life in Paris happier for free-spending U.S. soldiers, France had already set up three G.I. nightclubs (dull and se date but with controlled prices), and ar ranged to give tax rebates on their purchase of such luxury oddments as perfume and cosmetics. Last week, the French Government took new steps to ease G.I. economic pains...
...Russia never got the loan. In its first two years, E.I.B. made just two important loans-$13 million to Cuba, and $673,000 to finance tobacco exports to Spain. Jesse Jones, the RFC chairman, cracked that he could carry its business in his vest pocket. E.I.B. was a dull place...
...Time. Homer Bigart, and many a city-room veteran like him, now wanted to return to assignments where one person getting killed at a time was news. Said Bigart at Guam last week: "A lot of foreign news is going to sound dull after the war. I wouldn't mind writing murder stories for a while-if I could pick the murders I wanted to cover...
...Cents a Dance (Columbia), like Out of the Night, succeeds at once intersely handling an artificial but by no means dull story, and in making its people and their surroundings true-to-life. The story concerns the efforts, of two taxi-dancers (Jane Frazee, Joan Woodbury) and their boss (John Calvert) to get money out of two soldiers (Jimmy Lloyd, Robert Scott). The charm of the picture is in the redolent staging of scenes in the dance hall, at a jam session, a crap game; and in the fact that all these characters perform as unaffectedly as if they...