Word: duller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would have admitted not one in a hundred of their pupils would ever need to know. Boys and girls bursting with vitality and the exuberance of youth were cramped for hours into set positions, while by a sort of water-cure process knowledge was pumped into them from books duller than a doctor's dissertation in philosophy...
Prolific author of critical essays on poetry, Poet Untermeyer sticks to conventional rhythms in his own verse, but experiments with new rhymes: "fronds-bronze, millions-brilliance, color-duller, cardboard-hard, bored,"-studied inaccuracies which emphasize a lack of spontaneity. Indeed, this poet is at his best in historical comment, or in one satiric sonnet that is an anthology of Georgian poetry, complete with bucolic landscape where "immemorial lambs keep moonlit trysts with deathless nightingales...
Following a rather slow act of 40 minutes of dull wit and duller love making, Noel Coward, with the entrance of the Marquise Eloise in the second act finally lets his audience know that his comedy, "The Marquise" is concerned about one naughty French lady of the eighteenth century. The play opened Monday night at the Repertory Theatre and in it Mr. Jewett, forgetting his passion for young talent, had the better and more experienced actors interpret the comedy...
...Carnegie Institute. The athlete, helpless under what has been called "the dumbing influence of athletics", is struck down with an adding machine and his body run over by the juggernaut of the intelligence quotient. He cannot answer his assailants: they themselves have said that his weapons are duller than standard fighting gear. One learns to accept all things in time; it remains painful, however, to picture the Carnegie Foundation clipping from behind...
Water sharps picked Columbia to finish behind the Navy, Washington and California at Poughkeepsie last week; but sharps have been wrong so many times this season that duller men have taken to flipping coins before betting...