Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plymouth theatre Monday night with the "Criminal Code" was not particularly auspicious. The play itself was good enough and the mechanics of the production were also thoroughly adequate. The acting, however, was distinctly inferior. There were none of the subtleties or refinements that distinguish the artistic from the dull and obvious. And when it comes to being obvious this particular company is even ostentatious...
Since the War, since the appointment of suave, handsome, slightly dull Livingston Farrand as president, Cornell vitality has ebbed. What new ideas American education has today come elsewhere than from Cornell. Cornell's great scientists have gone. One of the last was famed "structuralist," psychologist, Edward Bradford Titchener (died 1927). Students from Europe, the Orient, the 48 States, no longer seek Cornell. Now many of those from outside New York State come as sons of loyal old graduates. Hiram Sibley's grandson is a Harvard sophomore. Cornell never drew young socialites from smart Eastern schools. Once...
...plethora of dull, traditional conceptions, Herbert Haseltine's black marble Aberdeen Angus Bull and Mark Symons' Crucifixion ("Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?") drew the most comment. In the latter, Calvary was peopled with a jeering crowd of moderns such as might be seen in any derisive London or Manhattan mob. There were the usual mannerly portraits of royalty. In one room Dame Laura Knight, attired in a white felt sombrero, with red pigtails coiled over her ears, was to be seen contemplating her own scenes of circus life, and Artist George Frederick Arthur Belcher stalked...
...sympathetic and intelligent study of the events of the latter half of Passion Week, and, working on a firm historical and biblical foundation, Mr. Morison proceeds by deductive reasoning to solve the mystery of the stone. At times the story is intensely absorbing, then again it becomes dull because of the slow and pedantic mauncy in which the answer is finally reached. The author is too much of a scholar to keep up the vivid and interesting style of the early chapters...
...Awakening from the dull phlegmatic sleep of centuries, America determined to take up arms against a more arrogant, more cruel foe than Kaiserism and break the shackles that enslaved a nation?the tyranny of intemperance, the despotism of drink." It was still as a Dry that he was retired from the Senate in 1923 by Edward Irving Edwards, Democrat, who claimed to be (and was) "as wet as the Atlantic Ocean...