Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the past week the current financial and business situation changed little. Production, particularly in steel, oil and automobiles, remained at high rates, but with a detestable tendency to decline. The stock market remained dull and heavy. Cotton and wheat were firmer. The slackening tendency observable in business generally is normal for this season of the year, but business leaders are inclined to think consumption has begun to overtake production, and that further increases in the rate of output would be for a speculative purpose alone. Wages are generally rising, however, and in general profits in industry and trade seem...
Lion tamers and sword swallowers ply unique and dangerous trades. The movies have discovered the human fly setting bricks at the top of a chimney and hanging signs under the clouds. Some people can never find a niche for themselves in the dull trades of "butcher, baker, and candlestick maker". It is India, however, which lays claim to the most unusual callings-at least if one may judge from a Lucknow dispatch, which describes the work of the Monkey Deporter, the Corpse Fender, and the Shahbash-Wala...
...Court of New York, like Polonius, had a daughter. One day, so the story goes, he caught her reading D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love. It is a very long novel, an erudite and obscure novel, and some critics say - among them H. L. Mencken - a very dull novel. But unquestionably it has some erotic passages which are intelligible to the sophisticated intelligentsia, Whether they were understood by his daughter or not Justice Ford did not say; whether her mind was corrupted by them he did not try to ascertain. But Justice Ford, being a lawyer and used...
...Dice of the Gods. Mrs. Fiske is the latest actress to lend her talents to the dramatic literature of dope, which has filled nearly a dozen theatres this season. At least she is a cheerful dope fiend. Hers no life of nervous shivering, furtive sniffs of coke, and dull-eyed fits of depression, but rather a bright and sunny addict, having a good time with her drugs. In fact the very Pollyanna of snow birds, now singing, now clowning, now whimsical, but always looking on the bright side of morphia. It is, perhaps, the most interesting and innocuous...
...United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. The Naval Academy is orthodox and oldfashioned; the New Haven School is advanced and experimental. At Professor Thomas' there are no books, but rather wall maps, and mathematical games; no paper pads, but slates. Competition is emphasized; the clever rewarded; the dull punished. And, more than all, there is Professor Thomas. Admiral Goodrich would reproduce the system as well as may be without the Professor. He would weed out the unfit and set them to their proper tasks. The fit he would educate to greater fitness. And throughout the process he would select...