Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scene. A huge room be-frescoed in tarnished red and gold -the Great Hall of the British Foreign Office. At either side three tall windows, dull-bright with winter sunshine. Down the centre a huge table, covered with blue baize and vermilion-splashed by three official despatch boxes. Around the table a group of the most distin- guished statesmen in Europe-all clad in mourning (for England's Dowager Queen). At smaller tables other statesmen and ladies-like- wise in black. At one end of the room eight rows of seats, tiered like a grandstand, for the press. Above...
...orderly march of a club of oddfellows in plain clothes. Here and there moves a strong or vivid figure† Sargent Bellows or Pennell† but the exhibit gave critics an opportunity to point out once more that the art of an enterprising commercial century is, by convention, dull. Of the celebrated pictures and sculpture they could find nothing new to say, and after examining the many other interesting specimens they could only express an inevitable doubt that such opera as "A Frosty Morning, Montclair," "The Hurrying River" by Robert H. Nisbet, "Afterglow" by Henry B. Snell, "The Last Moments...
...need not discuss the question whether his 'Concerto in F' is good jazz or not; that seems to us relatively unimportant beside the question whether it is good music or not; and we think it is only fairish music-conventional, trite, at its worst a little dull...
...DIARIES OF GEORGE WASHINGTON-John C. Fitzpatrick (Editor) - Houghton, Mifflin, 4 vols. ($25). The complete diaries of our pater patriae, showing how dull was his daily round and how much liquor he bought for his establishment...
...woods and fields that a century ago lay just outside the college gates are now laid out in monotonous brick suburbs and great industrial plants, and in this dull mess of modern buildings the University stands as a tiny oasis of gray stone and green gardens...