Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Granting the necessity of an open season on such players, there yet exists a certain lure in conversational bridge. A judicious phrase, a word here and there when not carried to the extreme of actual information, often turns a dull hand into a delightful bluff. A finesse is transformed from a mere mathematical chance to a palpitating affair of flesh and blood. While the game still retains its intelligent halo, the human factor which makes poker endurable is also added...
...increase faculty student cooperation. In spite of the fact that both groups are presumably working with a common aim, recognition of this is too often prevented by the attitude of 'pupil against teacher' which carries over from school. Students assume that professors exists in order to cram dull facts down their unwilling throats, and the faculty take that attitude for granted. When, however, a report appears like that of the Harvard Committee, it demonstrates the existence among students of real interest in education, and indicates the possibilities inherent in the cooperative spirit in which it was issued...
...over took the pilgrimage to Milan, hopefully, fearfully. Would Turandot be of the stuff of which La Boheme was made, La Tosca, Madame Butterfly?melodious, lovely, appealing, human above all operatic ingredients, or would it savor more of The Girl of the Golden West, of the later tryptich,* pappy, dull...
They were rather slow to commit themselves, those who went. They were awed by the solemnity of the occasion, by the magnificence of Toscanini's production. It was not pappy, they said, not dull. Nor yet had it the characteristics of Boheme. It seemed rather not to be like Puccini at all. It was spectacular, Chinese with a decidedly Italian flavor, the story of a beautiful, cruel princess, chaste as a buttercup, up for marriage to the one who succeeds in unraveling three riddles she propounds. The Prince of Persia comes, dares to try, to risk his head...
Cherry Pie. A pocket-sized revue was put on at the pocket-sized Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village and proved dull. It was one of the various little musical shows which spring up as summer approaches, in the hope of emulating the success of the Grand Street Follies and the Garrick Gaieties. One or two of the players, all unblessed by previous prominence, were markedly adept; one or two of the sketches were smart...