Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long time he is held up, awaiting a traveling-companion, in the fascinatingly dull little town of Saliste. To beguile the time he talks of Transylvanian history with the mayor. This worthy gives him what help he can, but has more immediate matters on his mind. "Round and round,'' says the mayor, "and round and round. Day follows day. It is so difficult...
Despite its sugary sentimentality, lack of restraint, and melodrama, "Happy Landing," the sixth production sponsored by the Professional Players at the Plymouth Theatre, is as amusing as its title is dull. Patterned on Lindberg's meteoric career and his unexampled popularity, it is a satire on American hero-worship and its exploitation. The all-American habit of pulling to pieces and devouring its cynosures is displayed very entertainingly...
Lions are occasionally seen on the Nairobi, British East Africa golf course. There is also a cinema theatre, but apart from these diversions life in Nairobi can be excessively dull. The Hon. Averill Furness, 23-year-old daughter of Viscount Furness, shipbuilding tycoon, and Andrew Rattray, her father's so-year-old professional hunter, found it so one evening last month as they finished dinner. Next morning, with a maid and a typist as the only witnesses, they were secretly married. Lord Furness was out in the bush hunting lions. To break the news to her father, Mrs. Rattray dispatched...
...Nunez and Alexandro Deloa said they were going to take their families to Fresno, maybe find winter work there. Bernardo Ries said he would go along. Cesario Delgado hiked over to a doctor's barn and stole a sack of barley, which he distributed among the parting families. With dull adios they scattered...
Liquidation seemed likely, perhaps an auction of the properties. From posters at hairpin curves and blind bridges no more would Fisk's stocky little boy, ready for bed, candle in hand, peer down the dull macadam way with his grinning advice...