Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cautious about putting up career men, simply because they are career men . . . against the able negotiators in first authority now practically conducting the diplomatic negotiations of European countries. ... I do not have individuals in mind. But . . . any custom of appointments and promotions involving career men must never dull the sharp discretion which the appointing power should employ in selecting our best men for our most important diplomatic work...
...cousin Joachim, who has been a patient for some months. Pastoy is a very ordinary person, a member of an ancient Hamburg family of merchants, himself about to enter the ship-building industry. His cousin had been in training for an army career. Both careers promise to be very dull...
...been spent in reading what is more or less old and classic? When January has been devoted to Spinoza or January has been devoted to Spinoza or Jonson what is the fate of July? In other words--should the college man read during vacation and if so, what? A dull rumbining noise will signify in many cases that benign tutors have been careful in tending to the matter and that there will be no radical change, for one should in theory be able to derive as much information from Aristotie when the temperature is at 90 as when it records...
...revile District Attorney Banton and padlock censorship in gay lampoon. But over the whole proceedings hangs a dim pall of melancholy. For after the production runs its two weeks' course, the company will disband, the aspiring but indigent Neighborhood Playhouse closes its doors for the last time. Flatly dull and audaciously brilliant by turns, the revue is a gay finale to the life of the Neighborhood Playhouse...
...Legend of the Bear's Wedding. Russian art, music, drama, though often sharply crude, is rarely dull. This gruesome Soviet production is bluntly directed, stagily acted. But it is also strangely fascinating. The wife of a wealthy hunstman is horribly clawed by a bear just before her son is born. The son, as a result, is impelled to dress himself as a bear and craftily attack tender maids. At last, to the horror of the villagers, he marries a lively girl. The expected happens. He reverts to beast, rips her to death on their wedding night...