Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young subaltern, a few years out of Harrow, joins the colonial army on New Year's Eve, 1905. The book, then, is a chronicle of the experiences of an Anglo-Indian Army officer over a period of years. Put in that way, nothing could seem more tedious and dull. Yet, the casual reader who has scrupously avoided, perhaps through laziness, the countless "Mother Indias" and now watches the columns of the daily press with some dismay, can be assured that the "Bengal Lancer" has come closer to India than any of his predecessors. Lowell Thomas, no mean adventurer himself, said...
...like the stir that one might expect of the work of the man the Theatre Guild modestly describes as "the greatest living English writer." This apparent lack of interest could go down to one of the few instances of Bostonian theatrical taste. Considered from any angle, this production is dull slow and humorless. The only reason for its being filmed apparently was that Mr. Shaw wrote it, but unfortunately his reasons for indulging in its composition seem unfathomable...
...that it is not funny at all. On the stage as The Queen's Husband, it was scintillating comedy, and since few liberties have been taken with Robert Sherwood's story it is hard to see why this elaborate photograph of a good play should be so dull. Lowell Sherman, the director, also acts the king who, bullied by his ministers and his wife, finds his only pleasure in cheating a little as he plays checkers with the palace flunkeys. When the Queen goes away and a revolution breaks out he sides with the people...
...America. As president of the Connecticut State Board of Fisheries & Game and of a joint commission on Forests & Wild Life, he helped develop his own State's efficient conservation policy. In a report to a conservation group he once wrote: "Soft living is conducive to soft bodies and dull minds. . . . There is one effective cure for this tendency to Idleness-back to the country, breathe fresh air, drink pure water...
...Irene Dunne) to start a newspaper in the town of Osage, Okla., which has sprung into a population of 10,000 in six weeks. He fights the outlawry that has terrorized the clapboard civilization; he establishes himself as the leading citizen of Osage and then disappears because success seems dull to him. He comes back again in a Rough Rider's uniform, goes into court to plead the defence of Estelle Taylor, the town's fanciest lady, whom his wife is about to have punished as a public nuisance; he loses a chance to be governor because he will...