Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over the world for 36 years go wild, is a deadly automatic performance for the genius who created it. The thrill of the first recital of "Casey at the Bat" repeated in almost every large city in the United States, has disappeared and it is now a matter of dull routine...
...executed. The contributor called himself " '90" and erred, admittedly, on the side of optimism and generosity where others of his age had erred in pessimism and bitterness. Still, Ferguson was a fair inkling. Said '"90": "His [Ferguson's] attitude toward his teachers and studies baffles a dull observer, but in the main it is governed by his predominating intellectual trait. He admires manhood vastly more than scholarship. He has yet to learn the important place pure scholarship holds in the general plan of things. He is sure to learn this in time. If he finds...
...boom proved irresistible sport. "Here," said the Prince, "I want a shot at that! Get me somebody about my weight. I am 150 pounds." A lanky American lad was found. The two went at each other with such vigor that they both descended to the mattress with dull thuds...
...most sophisticated of moods. Laura Hope Crews as the Duchess, Leslie Howard as the Professor, Marion Coakley as the daughter and Vincent Serrano as the butler lend just those touches that make the whole thing possible. Despite their silken methods, the purple patches of the play are as dull as they are daring, while the rest of it is light comedy in its most advanced and animated state...
...were fed educationally on Homer in our youth, Mr. Pulitzer reserved the Odyssey as a treasure to be enjoyed in later years. He had long looked forward to the celebrated episode of the wooden horse. Coming to the event he found it described in seven rather dull lines. 'I was so d-d mad,' he remarked, 'that I could have kicked Homer...