Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pretentious pastryware, cunningly but cheaply contrived by city haif-breeds, an honest book like Greenhaul, is as good as good bread. Many a long-cheated stomach should welcome it with enthusiastic rumblings. The story starts plainly and unprepossessingly enough, like any drab, overpopulated family novel: it is laid in dull, provincial, middle-class English surroundings-but instead of developing soporifically or solemnly, pseudo-tragically, pseudo-greatly, Greenbanks gradually, increasingly, compellingly turns into that rare phenomenon: a very good book...
...plot is worthless burlesque, & hopeless melange of the worst features of the worst detective "thrillers" that the cinema has produced. Professor Moriarty is there, but dull, asthmatic, licking his stupid Bapsburg chops Swearing revenge, the renovated Professor escapes from prison. One is not sure of the method, but there is a tumult of sirens, of whistles, of confused turnkeys slithering over smooth cement floors, of dead ones breathing heartily, hanging stiffly on steel staircases, & splendid tumult to make audiences forgive and forget. The rest is too much. There is a conglomeration of leers pineapples, cockney, forgeries, subway tunnels into bank...
...here but they all went home early. Healthy climate. Pretty good, awfully bad. I felt badly. Walk slow. Try and get well. He invited my friends and myself. Farther for further, shall for will. The reason was because . . . If it wasn't for football, school life would be dull...
...dull, well-played game between Columbia and Cornell, there were two exciting moments: one when Montgomery, fresh at the start of the game, shot a 30-yd. pass to Matal, who carried it for a touchdown; and one when Montgomery, with an injured leg, was sent back in the last quarter to kick out of danger from behind Columbia's goalline. The kick traveled 68 yd., kept Columbia's 6-to-0 lead safe till the game was over...
...measured rhythm of 2400 polished boots falling as one announce to the Charles the most glamorous of fall contests. Buffalo, Yale, Holy Cross, Dartmouth, all can furnish but dull counter-parts of Harvard, like Harvard preparing grubbing, grubbing, grubbing students with the elements of an education with which to fashion life. But with the Cadets comes a romance more real, more vital, than the round of artificial pleasures offered by the Somerset, Beacon Hill, and the Brattles. The trim uniforms, the electric response to crisp commands, the venerable joke about the mule, these combine to give a sense of purpose...