Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three times. . . . Mrs. Christy, vivacious, cut in. Cried she: "Mussolini is the most marvelous man I ever knew. He has charm, personality, strength, a sense of humor. He is a genius! He is so wonderful that every other man you meet after you have seen him seems flat and dull!" Artist Christy, fired by his wife to enthusiasm, cried: "Mussolini is perfect. ... He let us do anything we wanted-anything. ... I could go in for a sitting feeling pretty low. One look at him and I was filled with enthusiasm. He radiates power, and you catch some of it from...
...relatives help him with money. Charles Stewart, Canadian Minister of the Interior, replied softly and noncommittally to Professor M'Lennan's exhortations, thanked him for the ideas, hoped that public opinion would rally behind such men and reward them according to their true worth. Some facts which dull Professor M'Lennan's argument, essential as a Canadian Research Institute is, and valuable as it would be, are these: 1) There is a Royal Canadian Institute. It functions as a forum and is rather academic in its attitude. However, it has a pervasive, slow influence on Canadian...
What Assistant Professor Spencer could not put into his statistics is the fact that practically every preparatory school graduate, smart and stupid, enters college, while from the high schools go practically only the smart ones. The dull high school student becomes a clerk. The dull private school student may become a ne'er do well. But he usually has been through college, where he pulls his fellows' statistical average down...
Last week, a dull-faced, clumsy-looking man sat in his parlor; he was trying to entertain his friends. "Wait a minute." he told them, "I will get my accordion and play it for you." At this there was a soft hoot of derisive laughter. Girls nudged each other, men smirked and snickered. . . . Soon "Alf" came back into the room carrying an automatic "accordion" which he had purchased at the Mayfair Plaything Stores, in Manhattan. The instrument was beautifully made; it had cost $70, although a cheaper one could have been procured; it contained, completely hidden, a tone chamber made...
...easily minimized by an understanding of his easy tricks remain as insidious as ever; and now as he points out once more the original sophistication of woman and the enduring naiveté of the male, he can be called shallow or specious, but he cannot be called dull...