Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year's redesigning of the pretzel-shaped Roosevelt Raceway at Westbury, L. I., scene of the 300 mi. George Vanderbilt Cup automobile race, was intended to encourage more thrilling, more dangerous speeding, confine the dull, slow driving to seven turns. But on the simplified course this week's Cup contest resolved itself into a grinding 90-lap parade much like last year's except that this time specially-built German, as well as Italian, cars thundered steadily and safely down the straightaways...
Aside from a surefire Ring, and sterling individual performances, critics found little to commend. They considered Otello "dull," "flat," "not up to the usual standard of Covent Garden." In the Sunday Times Ernest Newman pronounced Don Pasquale "an exasperation and a pain from first to last." When critics on the Evening News, the Manchester Guardian, the Star and the News Chronicle came out with adverse criticism of Cesare Formichi's singing in Falstaff, Covent Garden stopped sending them tickets. Even the Times was moved to protest the "disarrangement" of Orphée and Prince Igor, in which the Ballet...
...Sharkey won it back on a decision which many experts considered erroneous. In 1933, Primo Camera knocked out Jack Sharkey with what looked like a gentle push. In 1934, clownish Max Baer knocked out Camera in an eccentric bout. In 1935, Braddock outpointed Baer in a hopelessly dull bout. Last week's fight left the heavyweight situation in some respects even more confused than before, but the major difference between it and its predecessors was that this fight was ably fought to an unbeatable conclusion. When it was over, Braddock had attained more esteem in defeat than...
...York Stock Exchange volume climbed above 1,000,000 shares on two days but trading lately has been dull as ditchwater. Meanwhile Wall Street began to get acquainted with C. I. O. at first hand as organizers for the Bookkeepers, Stenographers & Accountants Union prepared for a September drive...
...Britain's most impressive spectacles, drawing thousands of gaping tourists to London. Not the least of sanctified George V's services to his empire was the fact that he was born on June 3, when the weather is fine, when trade is apt to be dull. A king's birthday in the fog and rain of December and in the midst of the Christmas shopping rush is poor business. No reason whatever was given for choosing June 9 as George VI's birthday but the natural supposition was that weather records had been consulted...