Word: dullest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roots in both its Anglo-Saxon and French traditions-traditions whose offshoots have blossomed into some unlovely flowers of puritanism and respectability. Canada's divorce laws are harsh. The Canadian Lord's Day Act is a Sunday-observance law that makes Canada on a Sabbath day the dullest place in the world. The liquor laws are repressive...
...Chinese history, the Shangs sat on the throne of China (1766-1122 B.C.). They offered wine to their ancestral spirits and to the gods of the air, and poured liba tions to the gods of the earth. What remained, they drank - it could infuse spirit into even the dullest men. They poured the wine in bronze pots and cups which were shaped to a perfection that perhaps no metal work has equaled since...
These are some of the 200 questions that formed this year's general-knowledge examination at England's Eton College. Etonians, aged 13 to 18, got an hour and a half to answer the questions. The best of them got about 65% correct, while the youngest and dullest...
Based on an intolerably overworked situation, cast with unerring and ridiculous stupidity, and written with the dullest and least realistic dialogue in many a year, "The Wind Is Ninety" adds up to a confused humorously sentimental treatment of a non-existent solutions to a problem on which the theatre has been spending too much of its valuable time...
...were intent on wrecking the conference were as dangerous as those who were determined to wisecrack about it. They heard Hedda Hopper cooing in a hotel lobby: "My dear, if this thing doesn't pick up pretty soon, it's going to be the dullest clambake ever held." They read Elsa Maxwell's astute comments on the Russians: "a bunch of magnificent he-men." They debated who was to blame-the officials who issued the credentials wholesale, or the newspapers that assigned the freaks...