Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...successfully dull and amicable was the remainder of the public session, that the Conference was able to adjourn into committees, late in the week, without perceptible discord...
...seen his brother grow dull-eyed and prosaic in the business, his father has died while in the harness, and his ancient grandfather still lives for the mills...
With the return of Monday accompanied by a cold, dull rain, all the lighter joys of a warm May week-end disappear as completely as the sun itself. Putting aside thoughts of brighter costumed baseball heroes, of a blue clad runner valiantly battling up the back stretch against baffling breeze, and of far off dreams engendered by the atmosphere of the Pops, the Vagabond will again wander forth into the Yard this morning his eye on Harvard Hall, his mind full of history. For without stirring out of this ancient center of Harvard life nor shifting his mind from...
Enchantment. Here the situation concerns a group of people stranded during a snowstorm in a country home. They all make believe they are lords and ladies, except the real lords and ladies, who make believe they are servants. Dull...
...that point they turn on Siercy, who was sadly dished in the first place, and they transform him into a bounder. Incapable of carrying further what they have called Romance, they revile and belittle and finally pity it. They send Siercy away in shabby disgrace and exalt dull William Henry into a nobly understanding husband who mutters modestly about his part in the Great War. It is anything but fair, yet it builds into a formidable argument for the Grundies, the defeatists...