Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...along the lake front. Last March contractors began blasting away at frozen ashes, tin cans, bedsprings. In three months 15 miles of paving were laid, huge buildings erected. Exhibitors, paying $4 per sq. ft. for space, moved in their products. When last fortnight Secretary of Commerce Roper drawled a dull greeting into a microphone before a tiny audience, Cleveland suddenly woke up to find its dump converted into a thing of fun and beauty...
...nickelodeon. His only sister was the wife of Sam Katz. Balaban and Katz were the first theatre owners to cool their patrons in summer with mechanical refrigeration, an innovation presumably inspired by Barney Balaban's early experience in the cold-storage business. They were the first to cut dull shots from newsreels, the first to go in for super-colossal theatres. Balaban & Katz became the biggest theatre-chain in the Midwest with more than 100 units and an annual box-office take of some...
...airplane flying overhead. "A strange yelping sound punctuated the din of the machine. Anthony opened his eyes again and was in time to see a dark shape rushing down towards him. He uttered a cry, made a quick and automatic movement to shield his face. With a violent but dull and muddy impact, the thing struck the flat roof a yard or two from where they were lying." Helen went back to her husband and Anthony was left alone with his thoughts...
...HORSE IN ARIZONA-Louis Paul -Doubleday, Doran ($2). Even a President of the U. S. has to go fishing once in a while; even a 17-year locust has to come up for air some time. On this all-work-and-no-play-makes-Jack-a-dull-boy principle. Author Louis Paul last week burst from his cell with a yell like a Siberian monk's. A Horse in Arizona was well calculated to startle Author Paul's readers, who had gathered from his first book (The Pumpkin Coach-TIME, April 8, 1935) that Author Paul had almost...
SUMMER WILL SHOW-Sylvia Townsend Warner-Viking ($2.50). Wordy, but rarely dull, Author Warner turns to French political history, presenting an ambitious character study of a strongwilled, wealthy young Englishwoman who, captivated by her faithless husband's ex-mistress, casts off fortune, respectability; donates her services to the underground revolutionists; in time's nick escapes being shot for participating in the abortive Parisian insurrection...