Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond rose, prophecy welling within him. "Gentlemen. Our Alma Mata doesn't care." He spoke with solemn dignity, stressing every word. No head stirred under its halo of smoke. No dull eye answered to his rhetoric...
...promising disclosures of hideous tortures in British jails. The campaign and circulation faded together when stiff-necked Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks proved that the hideous conditions in British jails consisted in the inability of Horatio Bottomley to obtain his Pommery 1906 and other special privileges. Six dull years of neglect and increasing poverty were followed by sickness, the application for an old-age pension (a bill that Horatio Bottomley M.P. helped sponsor) and the ultimate insult, the offer of ?1 a week from Telephone Jack...
...story could be played up. it could also be played down. But none played it so far down as the high-Tory New York Evening Post. Typical was a five-sentence editorial headed "A Dull...
...dull day at the Morgan hearing yesterday. All that was brought out was that the firm had been for years the trusted financial agent for the great governments of the world, that since 1919 it had been concerned in the issuance of $6,000,000.000 worth of securities, that it had sought to foster the fortunes of the two famous academies at Andover and Exeter, that it had tried to help a much beloved ex-President of the United States to make a little money for his old age and that any corrupt political 'hookup' or intent could...
...Hale, alone of the three ventures into the inner recesses of the young intellectuals' cannery, and passes some crumbs from Sherwood Anderson's trencher, crumbs anent the arbitrary character of Communist literary criticism. For the rest, the Hoot is conventional and mild. Two undergraduates have collaborated on a dull catalogue of duller New Haven, and Mr. Charles Seymour writes with pale whimsy on artistry in dining. But it remains for the three reviwers to smother Mac-Leish and Pirandello with truffles of a more spiritual kind. Mr. Winter's long hosauna on Pirandelle in particular, is a jewel, a jewel...