Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Love in the Wilderness. At the angles of this triangle stand a husband, a childhood hero and Corinne Griffith. Since the impression is rapidly spreading that Corinne Griffith is the most beautiful female in the films, there is virtually no point in saying the doings are dull. Watch her head against the pillow of a hospital cot; see her escape from the very jaws of a greedy alligator; follow her through the thunder storm on the convict island. Do all this and be satisfied. The direction of Robert Z. Leonard and the terrible titles will not wholly flatten the effect...
...producers at the return of fair production rates is due to the sharp lessons received in the spring of 1923 and again in 1924. On both occasions, demand suddenly appeared, prices rose and steel mills broke all records for production. This led quickly to swamping the market, decreased demand, dull activity and falling prices. The productive capacity of this country's steel industry is tremendous; demand for steel, while wholesome and constant, is not sensational and may not be so in the future...
...King's Speech was long, very long, and, allegedly, very dull. Written, as usual, by the Cabinet, it was a simple declaration of the Conservative Government's policy. Only the shortest reference to the Egyptian crisis (TIME, Dec. 1 et seq.) was made. Opposition was voiced to the Anglo-Russian Treaty (TIME, Aug. 18) ; but favor was shown to a continuance of diplomatic relations. The League of Nations came in for a fair show of praise. Intention was announced of resuming work on the Singapore Naval Base (TIME...
...said that the book teems with action. Like a disorderly street seen from a window, cobbled with yellow faces, it teems; adventures shoulder and jostle; events prod each other's ribs; Sentimentality picks the pocket of Romance. One is forcibly reminded that nothing is quite so dull as unvaried liveliness. It is a book that achieves a forthright swagger that the fiction of this latter day has largely lost. Beauty in distress is white; villainy is black indeed. It relinquishes, at the same time, whatever graces of subtlety and invention the fiction of this latter day has gained...
...this is, of course, in re the younger generation. The young ladies are plentifully petted and cocktailed. Most of it is dull and arrantly absurd. Emma Dunn, as the mother, reinforces it with the single striking performance...