Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alarmist, whither-are-we drifting attitude of Mr. Blake toward your recent editorials, may I take issue? Your editorial page and in fact the whole paper has shown more alertness, vigor, and originality than at any time in the past six years. Mr. Blake must be accustomed to rather dull and obvious editorial fare so to condemn intelligent journalism exercising a legitimate right of leadership. Very truly yours, L. B. Young...
...League of Nations is appropriately found in that most peaceful of Swiss cities, Geneva. Exotic female visitors by the dozen, score and million cry out, "How perfect!" and the slightly world-weary assistants of Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General to the League since its inception respond, "How dull...
...Shakespeare said it with much subtler whimsicality, "as you like it." "I don't care whether you laugh or weep", says the "enfant terrible" of the Russian Theatre, "as long as I have succeeded in arousing your interest, in stimulating your curiosity, in helping you while away a few dull hours in this dull existence of yours, in a word, if I have succeeded in amusing you I have fulfilled my mission as a good showman. My job is to amuse not to instruct. Nay, more. If I have succeeded in bringing laughter in your heart and strange wonder...
Laymen who dramatize in their imaginations the great discoveries of science, would find the actual moment of such discoveries dull enough. One more figure added to a string of decimals, a barely perceptible change of color in a test tube, a splinter of light measured against the angle of a graphed mirror-and the thing is done. The laboratory worker wipes his hands on his apron and goes home to write a paper for the next meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. Last week that notable body, convening in Madison, Wis., listened to various amazing reports...
...that service depends upon the quality of the men chosen in today's election. A committee made up of men selected for their energy, ability, and enterprise can be of great influence in moulding the spirit of the class. On the other hand, a committee carelessly elected, composed of dull and lazy members, will soon become a body of no mark or likelihood dedicated to the purchase of magazines and ash trays for the common room, and little more. Wherefore it behooves the members of the Class of 1929 to realize the importance of todays' elections and to ponder carefully...