Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present do not mingle gracefully. The present is too red-blooded. And so we see a dismal parody of Kipling, a delectable burlesque of Oscar Wilde, and a really amusing, if somewhat overdone, page of history with undergraduate notations, push a bit of Chaucer and a rather dull ballad of a questionable source, from the center of the stage. Now Lampy does not snore so loudly. He knows the present best. But Pity of Pities! The clock ticking backwards leads his mind down into chaotic, confused imaginings. We find Diogenes in a humorous vein. Descartes would die all over again...
...movie theatre in the Square was greeted with high hopes by those who usually go to Boston for the purpose of killing an evening. It is a sad fact that these hopes have not been entirely realized. With few exceptions the pictures at the new theatre have been dull--in fact, terrible...
...dull literature, nothing is duller than the alumni bulletins of universities which one has not attended. Yet persons who were never within gunshot of the University of Pennsylvania were struck by an article in the current General Magazine and Historical-Chronicle (quarterly) of the Pennsylvania alumni association. Therein, Dean Emory R. Johnson reported that he had, during a recent visit to Chufu, in the Province of Shantung, China, invited as a matriculant to the University of Pennsylvania a young gentleman whose genealogy has no peer for well-authenticated length or world-wide distinction, Duke K'ung, aged...
...good sense. Her general proposition is .that there are too many "soulless" people in the world. Corollary: U. S. civiliza- tion is largely to blame. Somewhere in China a childlike Briton, Clifford Cotton, with a witchlike mother and Daley, his healthy-animal wife from California, perceives Wisdom in the dull eyes, lean frame and tired voice of a thirtyish English girl, Lena, an itinerant musician who stops in his house to have a touch of pleurisy. In addition to being childlike, Clifford is some kind of fairy changeling. Lena's dose of Wisdom, combined with an effect of moonlight...
...outer world but soon it was all lost by the charming but impractical Viennese. Department stores passed into Christian hands but the aisles were vacant, management was stupid, fashion languished. The krone, dropping dizzily, turned today's newly-rich bourgeois into tomorrow's bankrupt. Theatres closed or gave dull plays with inept actors. Tens of thousands of Viennese apartments stood vacant. Viennese husbands moped; without the competition of smart Jewesses, their wives wore Scotch tweeds, Alpine woollens, no cosmetics. The tearful partings of polyracial relatives only faintly reflected the hardships suffered later by ladies of joy, jewelers, restaurateurs, bartenders...