Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...movie. The coming of other vicarious amusements has made its problem more complex. The public was beginning to for get it. Boston audiences have never been particularly enthusiastic or acute. There are only a handful who prefer the legitimate parent to the illegitimate son. The ruck are either too dull to fathom the sensible, or too untutored to follow the trivial...
...Francisco Examiner had just made one "shot" of The Chief ("WR") being handshaken at city hall by Mayor James ("Sunny Jim'') Rolph Jr. He reached for his bottle of flashlight powder, to prepare another. As he removed the stopper there was a searing flash, a dull detonation, a blast of choking smoke and flying glass. The crowd of 3,000 milled and trampled at the cry of "bomb!" Photographer Shelton lost a thumb, nearly lost an eye from what every photographer fears-hot embers falling into the powder bottle...
Billy the Kid (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Undoubtedly the new vogue of westerns has been stimulated by critics who arraigned the cinema for losing its integrity in dull photographs of stage plays. Now King Wallis Vidor, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's ace director, with the help of the company's best dialog writers, Laurence Stallings and Charles MacArthur, has deliberately turned back to the old westerns as models in an attempt to reproduce the virtues that have reappeared only occasionally in pictures since the western became outmoded-speed, action, outdoor settings, and the suspense of the greatest and simplest...
...Santa Fe Trail (Paramount). This is another western, beautifully photographed, nicely acted, but static and thoroughly dull as entertainment. Taken from Hal G. Evart's Saturday Evening Post serial, Spanish Acres, it is in effect a long argument as to whether some sheep owned by a U. S. boy are to be grazed on land owned by a gullible Spanish rancher. Richard Arlen is the hero, Rosita Moreno is the rancher's daughter. One element of comic relief is the occasional intrusion of a young boy and girl who have the fearful coyness inevitable in camera-trained children...
...that Military and Naval Science are "snap" courses indulged in by only the dull and lazy. That is not true although I admit that, they are not as difficult or exacting as most of the courses given at Harvard. This is made necessary by the fact that many men can take them only as a fifth or extra course because of the requirement of concentration and distribution. Furthermore, it is evident that the Government wants for its, Reserves not scholars of the upper rank lists, but men of character and ability in other fields...