Word: dullest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which I made at the Republican National Convention found little favor with Percy Hammond and Franklin Pierce Adams, two famed Manhattan colyumists. Said Hammond: 'The keynote speech of Congressman Burton. . . an aged man, was a complete assemblage of all the honest and senile platitudes. . . It was the longest, dullest speech that I have ever heard.' Said Adams: 'Over the radio, applause for a platitude sounds even sillier than it does when you're one of the applauders yourself...
...Osborn: "So far the worst and dullest and most futile play of the season that there is no calculable second in the race. . . Our best emotion during the evening was one of sympathy for Miss Phoebe Foster. . . for being associated with the cast of this worthless production...
...innovations in the preparation of the Freshman Triangular debaters mark a radical step toward a time when the zeal of personal conviction will enliven the dullest of scheduled debates. To the clash of belief and disbelief in even the preliminary round table discussions is added the inspiration of speaking to an audience when there is any speaking to be done. Debaters who have prepared by this novel method of stimulating enthusiasm and vivld presentation will certainly bring into the forum some of the excitment and fire and even glory of these discussions on which has hinged the fate...
...Club or starting a Sunday afternoon service for men alone. He shrank from Jackman also, who came to him with the tortures of his soul. Finally he found a way out. He rid himself of an unpleasant sister by inviting her down when Queningford was at its dullest. He devolved his parish work on Miss Lambert. Jackman left him. He promoted Cartwright away. Then he married Molly Beauchamp, a rich widow, and was able to leave for good. But though everything appeared to be successful, though he himself was content, he brought failure to everybody else. It is an ironic...
...Asunder. Filmi-nations of the film factories against divorce were chronicled in this column last week in an estimation of Reno. The present production pushes vigorously the happy home campaign. It represents a most egregious waste of effort. The film is probably the dullest, most absurdly wearisome production that has been reviewed herein for weeks...