Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forgets that, though he be at an impressionable stage while at college, the student cannot hope to gain a formula for future existence and a road map from college. He can get less easily catalogued gifts experience of mental freedom, the contact with cultivated minds (nor are they all dull or completely parched), the ability to adjust interests on some saner scale, the small but glorious gleam of reality which even the barest learning or the continued application of tobacco, friendship, and intelligence sometimes engenders. Mr. Aswell has too much faith in the American college student as a reformer...
Henry-Behave!-A stuffed shirt loses his memory, comes to in Congress; dull...
...Alimony Only (Leatrice Joy). Two couples in a criss-cross complication prove that true love under the direction of the heroine will triumph over mercenary ambitions of less exalted members of the cast; prove also how dull such business...
Harling's Share. "Not jazz at all," some said but they were the ones whose senses were too dull to catch the relentless one-two-three-four beat that pulsed its way through the second act. They had looked for trick instruments, screeches, yowlings, offensive percussives, and there was none of that. But even the untutored ones felt instinctively that then they were hearing the best music of the piece. The first and last acts are mostly dialogue sprinkled here and there with an aria of the light opera type, pretty, trite, unsuitable to snorting drama. The second...
Most respectable of all was "The Man's Magazine," Beau, which interlarded "The Secret of Making Good Coffee" by George Moore, a haberdashery and gifts-for-women page, theatre talk, an excellent London book letter by J. Middleton Murray, a dull Shaw interview, a note on bridge and a note on the return to Manhattan of nag-drawn victorias, all of which somewhat offset a nude story by Paul Morand, a discussion of Broadway females, some "daring" art work and a letter-the original of which is possessed by the U. S. State Department-to a Man with...