Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their faces is greyish, their hands are hanging down weakly, their eyes are dim. . . . Only their jaws are moving, submissively, evenly, without joy or animation. . . . What are they trying to find in this miserable, degrading chewing? . . . When an infant, exhausted from hunger and crying, is pathetically moving its dull eyes, and there is no milk in the mother's breasts or in the bottle, the mother pushes a rubber nipple into the child's mouth- and the child sucks it desperately. . . . F'or a while it deceives itself by the movement of its own lips...
First day in court last week was as dull as anything with prospects of continuing 15 years might be. In the auditorium of Philadelphia's Manufacturers & Bankers Club 250 persons-the first four platoons of a division of 17,000 claimants, 3,050 lawyers-heard a handful of witnesses go to the witness stand microphone to answer lengthy questioning. Chief witness of the day was William J. Proud, for 38 years superintendent of Laurel Hill Cemetery, where Henrietta Garrett and her close kin are buried. He identified pictures of tombstones on Lot No. 320, Section...
...spite of the dull showing of these radio ''names,'' purchasers of Commentator felt that they were getting a sharply flavored magazine which aspired to fill the place of the American Mercury in its palmy days. Lead-off article, from no loudspeaker but from the pen of Historian James Truslow Adams, was a thoughtful audit of the "state of the Union." George E. Sokolsky, writing on John L. Lewis, made the flat assertion that the United Mine Workers of America could "come into a town and take possession of it," and "close down any steel or automobile...
...Only a few characters--the fool (McKeuzie Ward), Audrey the shepherdess (Doris Fordred), and, most of all. Leon Quatermaine as Jacques, escape a deadly conventionality in acting which oppresses the majority of the cast. Jacques's superb rendition of the "All the World's a Stage" speech makes a dull-evening a happy one. But for the others a tremendous consciousness that they were acting Shakespeare seemed to add pounds to every word, gesture and expression. The feeling assailed one after the first few lines and remained rarely contradicted throughout...
...incidents on which Beloved Enemy are based are so exciting that it would be hard for them to inspire a really dull picture. Lacking the succinct power of The Informer, this first Hollywood effort of 31-year-old Director Henry C. Potter, who got his start in the young New York theatrical firm of Potter & Haight, will probably reach and please an even larger audience. Strenuously romantic, magnificently acted and produced, it contains numerous moments of honest cinematic intensity: Riordan and his best friend (Jerome Cowan) escaping from English soldiers across the Dublin roofs; the wife (Karen Morley...