Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Congratulations for your splendid news magazine. You have revolutionized news-writing. Before TIME appeared, I had quit reading daily papers and news magazines, except at long intervals and then cursorily, because they were so voluminous and dull. I had to wade through many pages that did not interest me to glean some few items that...
...Fields, who teamed so successfully and so long with Joe Weber, comes back by himself in a straight comedy. It is the story of a delicatessen dealer who plunged in Wall Street with grievous consequences. Mr. Fields is pretty funny now and then, and the play is pretty dull all the time...
...exacting demands of royalty. But in the cinema (you have guessed it) he does marry her. England need not be alarmed. The Prince and his kingdom are mythical. And Richard Barthelmess does not resemble the renowned Edward Albert. Not that it matters particularly, since the picture is pretty dull...
...large glazed pages were filled with practical workroom suggestions for young singers, with reviews of concerts and operas, and glib comment on vocal activities by one "Ariel." Yet, despite the fact that the first issue of any magazine is inevitably an awkward one, critics found Singing far less dull than many of the slovenly publications in which ruined musicians try to earn a living by writing about music. Vocal students bought it eagerly. Advertisers were interested...
Passing by eager youngsters, mournful oldsters, bead-eyed Jews and dour Scots, the prisoner brought his dull gaze to rest upon a distinguished figure of some three-score years...