Word: dullest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Short, jut-jawed, gimlet-eyed, Professor Berdan always marches into class with a huge armful of books. Flinging them down, he scrawls an almost unintelligible message on the blackboard (e.g., "Vivify by range of appeal"), then proceeds, with illustrations and gestures, to make his meaning clear to the dullest students. To nip stilted, labored styles in the bud, he opens each year's course by shouting fiercely, "The less work you do in this course, the better." Students like to mimic his lecturing methods. Once, at a Yale Lit dinner, a student representing Professor Berdan came in with...
...this is intentionally vague, Marxist Harold Laski is specific enough. In the best-written piece in this collection, Laski explains labor's tactic so that even the dullest capitalist may read while he runs. Laski reminds British labor of Lenin's reasons for helping Kerensky defend Petrograd against General Kornilov. "It would be wrong," wrote Lenin, as quoted admiringly by Laski, "to think that we have departed from the task of the conquest of power by the proletariat. Not at all. We have approached much nearer to it; only not directly, but obliquely. And at this very minute...
...last week even the dullest fellow traveler had found...
...Gloomy Monday on the practice gridiron yesterday as the squad went through one of the dullest Monday afternoon rehearsals of the current season. The team not only faces George Munger's powerhouse eleven on Saturday but also tackles a heavy James B. Conant offensive in the form of November hours. all through the week...
...Artist Doctoroff made charcoal drawings of Candidates Hoover and Curtis. (He rates Mr. Hoover one of his dullest subjects.) Having painted such bigwigs as Chicago's Rabbi Louis Mann, Illinois's Governor Henry Homer, the late Banker Melvin Traylor, the late William Wrigley Jr., Railroader Daniel Willard, Artist Doctoroff tried his hand at the late Abraham Lincoln. This canvas so impressed Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Tribune that he bought it for $500, replated and reprinted his Lincoln's Day rotogravure section to feature it. In 1936 the Tribune paid Mr. Doctoroff $500 to spend...