Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this exhibition, he finds himself, on recovery, a nominee for Congress. Evidently, Congress is Mr. Wilton's idea of the ne plus ultra, for he decides to live forever after in accordance with that personality which was discovered in him through amnesia. The irony is unconscious; the play dull. Reports have it that Mr. Langner has written a better play, to be produced later in the season...
...returned to a rehearsal of Turandot. Critics next day were loud in praise of the "medieval color" of Herr Reinhardt's arrangement, of the quality of the musical accompaniment (by Einar Nilson, musical director of The Miracle). Only one commentator ventured to suggest that "most miracle plays are dull. . . ." Everyman amused people very long ago. The earliest edition of the text is that "imprynted at London in Flete Strete by Richarde Pynson prynter to the Kynges moost noble grace" in 1509, but for almost a century before that it had trundled up and down England in creaking "pageant wagons...
...everything had been settled the West Side Tennis Club confirmed the rumor that she would not defend her title this year Tilden. In the East-West team matches at Forest Hills, Tilden beat William M. ("Little Bill") Johnston, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1, 6-1. It was a dull match. Johnston's game did not seem impressive, but then it has rarely seemed impressive against Tilden these last several years. Johnston can nearly always beat Vincent Richards, though Richards beats the champion oftener than anybody else. In the Davis Cup matches Johnston has made a better record than...
...post-payday drunk. George, substituting, tried to uncouple two cars of a moving train. His foot became wedged in a frog and stayed there. He wears to this day a peg leg; loses 1 in. of his 5-ft.-6-in. stature. He then tried teaching school, found it dull; managed a baseball team, found it unremunerative; worked as clerk in the Secretary of State's office in Springfield (the only political office he has ever held). He had tasted political atmosphere and liked it. In Chicago he drank deeper under...
Last week jaded Gothamites sweated, many publicly collarless, others privately naked. In front of a cell-like apartment house one Garth Anderson, Negro, 23, sat dull-eyed, knowing not, caring less that Miss Josephine Smith, 20, white, likewise exuded many a salty droplet some miles away. Languor fell upon them. They sighed, yawned-screamed with fearful pain until summoned surgeons set their respectively dislocated jaws...