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...confines of athletics alone; picking the five best this and the ten best that has become the favorite occupation of the intelligentsia. Periodicals are flooded with lists innumerable of the five greatest Americans, the ten greatest novels, and Vanity Fair has even drawn up a list of the ten dullest literary classics...
Torrential cheers cut his statement short. It was clear to the heaviest and dullest mind that 300 votes were enough. "Accepted!" roared the supporting members. "Accepted!" roared back the galleries. "Accepted!" cried the Ludendorffists (extreme Monarchists) with dismay. "Accepted!" roared the Communists in anger. The noise of mad cheering grew wilder and wilder. The Communists fairly danced and shrieked with rage. The Ludendorffists turned about and fixed the Diplomatic Gallery with a cold, calculating glare of insolence, shook their fists at the assembled diplomats. But nothing served to alter the cheerful mien of M. de Margerie, French Ambassador to .Germany...
...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...