Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sending him an entry blank. Taking the precaution to fill out the form, he sent it back with another blistering letter. These tactics, oddly enough, won him a personal interview. Bill announced that he was an expert on literature, but could see that his interviewers found this fairly dull...
Trumbull College downed Dunster's basketball team 49 to 46 Saturday at Yale in a generally dull game. Yale's fast break combined with a weak Crimson defense proved to be too much for Dunster's quintet. Nevertheless, Ed Cuffe copped high scoring honors with 27 points...
...could have been more riotous and spontaneous than the latest production. Despite an uncertain start earlier this year, when no one seemed sure whether or not there would be a show at all, the Pudding has put together a fresh and easy bit of patter which is never dull. For the good-natured audience last night, which displayed varying degrees of sobriety, the show...
...producers of Love Rides the Rails skillfully turned an essentially dull script into a quickly paced and delightful mix of color, off-hand humor, pleasant music and a good deal of unblemished verve. The show lags at times, and the lines are seldom inherently funny, but the very lack of slickness and pretension make the pauses suitable relief before what is expected and does arrive at the next moment...
Crusader & Dog. Against this figure Greene pits a tired, cynical neutralist, a British newspaperman named Thomas Fowler. He is a man of the past but with no faith in it. Back home are a dissatisfied High Church wife, debt, a dull desk-in short, the Graham Greene country of mildew, cabbage water, frayed cuffs, bad dentistry and unmade beds and all the other seedy physical metaphors for "weeping multitudes [who] droop in a hundred...