Word: duller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there anything duller...
Orders on the London Stock Exchange may be and often are executed by clerks substituting for regular members. On the New York Stock Exchange, only members may buy & sell, and on dull days the clerks have even a duller time than brokers. A year ago when trading became rutted at about 700,000 shares per day, the floor clerks in desperation devised a nameless game which has almost all the elements of real trading. For a long time the idle floor members ignored the game, continuing to spend the daily five-hour Stock Exchange session at backgammon or horseplay. After...
Washington society has been the duller since Mrs. Henderson died in 1931, aged 90. Wealthy widow of the late Senator from Missouri and friend of Presidents Lincoln through Hoover inclusive, it was among her various ambitions to make 16th Street the social stem of Washington, D. C. Buying great quantities of real estate, she induced the Austrian, Spanish, Cuban, Polish, French and Lithuanian embassies to move there, built a $300.000 palace which she attempted time after time to have made the official home of the Vice Presidents of the U. S. Vegetarian, ardent prohibitionist (she poured her husband...
TIME's opinion is that its world would be duller without Upton Sinclair...
...their complicated interbalance makes every human being precisely what he is. The balance changes during life, making the baby a boy, the boy a youth, the youth a man, the man a dotard. Disease or accident, food or medicine may alter the balance. Then one may be smarter or duller than natural, thinner or fatter, more brave or more backward. A woman with an overactive thyroid is a busybody with a quick pulse, a temperature slightly above normal. She wants to wolf all kinds of food. The doctor may quiet her by dosing her neck with x-rays...