Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laboratory. The lectures, of which there are two each week, are always satisfactory and sometimes extremely interesting for the most part, than the laboratory work of most beginning science courses. Many lecture-table experiments and descriptions of the commonest industrial processes keep the necessary description from being dry or dull. The one afternoon of laboratory work, which includes a ten-minute test at the beginning of the period on the work of the proceding week is considerably more interesting...
...would be very dull to insist on further proof of the patent greatness of Bernard Shaw. Almost alone of our contemporaries, he has had a divine consistency. One may, like Mr. Chesterton, disapprove of his principles, but he cannot trap Mr. Shaw into applying those principles falsely. A brave regularity in an unpopular position is always an admirable thing, but Mr. Shaw has made it inspiring and pleasant also. He may be, as Lenin said "a good man fallen among Fabians," but he is certainly not as Mr. McCabe once charged so ineptly "quite as entertainer." For to entertain merely...
...months at Geneva there has been heard a dull and droning sound: the voices of delegates to the League's impotent Disarmament Conference endlessly talking about ratios, quotas, munitions, mustard gas, manifestoes. There was a new noise in Geneva last week: the clatter of crutches, the thumping of canes, the creaking of wheel chairs as 8,000 veterans, representatives of 8,000,000 more in a dozen countries, stumbled in ungainly parade through the streets to let the Disarmament Conference know that they were tired of talk. The veterans were representatives of two international associations with names as awkward...
...role, partly because the action has been localized at the Italian front in the War-it gives the impression of being a minor-league Farewell to Arms. Angela Chiaromonte (Helen Hayes) is the daughter of an elderly Prince (Lewis Stone) who has made arrangements for her to marry a dull young man. Instead of complying, she hobnobs with a young aviator named Giovanni (Clark Gable, with mustache). Going to see Giovanni one evening her car collides with her father's. She is so dejected by his death that she refuses to see Giovanni until, on the day that...
...state papers if they are "small-shots," and for nationwide publicity blankets if they are Hucy Longs. And the literate morons lap it up, the intelligent must suffer. But in the end they stop themselves. "Like Hoflin, they become obsessed with their own drivel, they take themselves seriously, grow dull and tiresome." Or else they overplay their hands, poisoning themselves with their own publicity. It is possible that this is already happening to Huey Long. If this article demonstrates no other sad truths, it shows, with Machiavellian clearness, that Huey is no hard-working rough diamond, but rather a physical...