Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...District of Columbia, Senators and Representatives, officers of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, officials of Federal Departments. There was an interval of 50 minutes for luncheon, after which patriotic and military societies, and the public, were received. Mrs. Coolidge wore "deep red chiffon brocaded with 'dull blue velvet...
Many an old grad makes his presence obnoxious to us by his eternal revival of "good old days," and accompanying accusations of our own times as weak, degenerate and dull. But here there comes among us an old grad, may more, one who is delving into a past that is far beyond the memory of the oldest of all the great collection of "Oldest Living Graduates" in existence, to tell us far other things. For the old days may have been, in fact were, undeniably great, but they were far from good...
There is a curious resemblance between this relic of past life and certain relics of present life now in the making. There have grown up in the shadow of Flaubert with his dull and unfortunate M. Bovary a race of writers who call themselves "realists." These Realists have much in common with our Imagist poets, especially in the common method of transcribing rather than transmuting whatever of sight or sound or smell comes to them through their senses. This photographic process, which eliminates the emotions and sympathies of the author, has at present the resource of shocking the public into...
...writer is at his worst when he loses his grip on the pinnacle and goes tumbling down the mountain side to land with a dull and prosy thud in the world of his creation. As soon as he ceases to be the hermit of the high place; as soon as he begins to share the whims and fancies of mortality; as soon as he begins to take sides and see his characters as mouthpieces of his merely temporal cogitations, he ceases to be the climbing demigod, becomes the plodding propagandist. J.A.T...
...quarter of a minute-a click- "Vive l'Anarchie!" cried the man-zip! -then a dull thud...