Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearby Larkhill Artillery School, four 20-year-old second lieutenants were seized with an inspiration to improve on antiquity. Next morning, for the first time in 1,000 years, the rays of the rising sun discovered a new glory in Stonehenge. A glistening coat of green paint instead of dull lichens covered ancient dolmens. Atop great menhirs sat shining chamber pots...
...last resort of horse & buggy days will remember last week's Hambletonian as the one with the best weather. But to seasoned trotting men, the story of Lawrence Sheppard's master stroke of horse trading will serve as a subject of discussion for many a dull winter evening...
...most plentiful, a really good one-a Buddenbrooks or a Forsyte Saga-is rare. Run-of-the-mine family novels are likely to hold more interest for fellow members of the family than for strangers -a fault which is sometimes due to the fact that the family is dull, more often due to a writer's family discretion...
...does not smoke, drink, gamble. Nor does he dance on Sundays. His dancing is bad anyway, so no one misses it, but the few girls he has been known to take out have found him too earnest for their taste. Dull he may be to debutantes, but Wall Street finds him vastly interesting...
During the dull days of post-War recovery, Cristobal goes to work on four English bankers who stole his father's copper mine, ruins them separately with deliberately prolonged, sadistic finesse. Tuning up for the last revenge, on capitalism, Cristobal begins by short-selling the world's best shoe and smelting stock in memory of Sacco and Vanzetti, utilities in honor of Tom Mooney, and so on through all the martyrs of radicalism. Meanwhile he has married a poor, tuberculous girl, returned to Spain to finance an uprising. A hero in the first days of the Spanish Civil...