Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slow, yellow gas engulfed London, suddenly, one morning last week. It was not poisonous but it made eyes to smart and throats to tickle. Grime laden, it soiled. Dense, it blotted out objects within arm's reach. Translucent, it diffused broad daylight into a dull, enveloping bluish glow. As it must to London, "the worst fog in half a century" had come...
Other "native" operas had come through competition for prizes, forced hot-house flowers, that wilted soon after exposure. Some were independent experiments, brilliant in spots, dull on the whole. An opera requires musicianship but it fails without the accompaniment of theatre. So Signor Gatti-Casazza selected the creators of the Henchman. Edna St. Vincent Millay, poetess with a dramatic sense, was to write the libretto (TIME, Jan. 17); Deems Taylor, composer of concert music, onetime music critic of the N. Y. World, would provide the score...
...Ellen Gaylord, young and pretty, teaches arithmetic in the Park School, Cleveland. As teaching careers go she has not been at it very long, but long enough to find out that the phenomenon of two and two equaling four is dull dumplings to young minds. You have to bring two and two to life somehow if you want to hear four discussed at recess. . . . Last fortnight Teacher Gaylord invited some fathers and mothers to her classroom, in the morning. In front seats, grinning, sat a picked team of 15, her best mathematicians from the sixth, seventh and eighth grades. Teacher...
...York's penal code, a famed paragraph lobbied through by the whiskered subject of the Suppression office's chief portrait. He suppressed Jurgen, famed allegory by James Branch Cabell. He did quite well until 1919 when he inadvertently attacked Harper & Bros. for publishing the dull biography of a prostitute. He obtained a conviction, but Harpers won their appeal in New York's highest court, which weakened Comstockian Section 1141 by holding that questionable art or literature is guiltless unless it "tends to excite lustful or lecherous desire." Tendencies are such vague things that Mr. Sumner...
...hero slaps his wife's face and she , promptly flutters repentant into his forgiving arms. The audience is left to imagine the happiness that might have ensued had he taken a cane to her. The play may be applesauce to Philosopher Keyserling, but it is caviar to a dull season, for it is smartly acted and well-lined...