Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There Are Still Judges!" Instead of the street-stabbings and pistol play which Germany, Spain and Japan have recently seen as their regimes changed, French moderation made Paris almost dull last week, though Nobel Prizeman Dr. Alexis Carrel was on hand to call what was happening a "French Revolution" and to attribute the lack of bloodshed to the French people's "unusually strong nervous system...
...revolution of 1799 and overthrown a few months later. Central figure of the novel is Luisa Sanfelice, 34-year-old daughter of impoverished nobles, unloved and unloving wife of a dissolute, treacherous aristocrat who has run through two fortunes, abandoned his children, left his wife in a state of dull, stupefied despair. At a ball given for Admiral Nelson on his return from the Battle of the Nile, Luisa meets Fernando Ferri, an ill-favored, impetuous, garrulous lawyer's clerk, secretly a radical who lacks the courage to state his views or the resourcefulness to try to achieve them...
When Harriette left her father she ran off with young Lord Craven to Brighton. A dull, contented young man, Craven was interested only in his experiments with cocoa trees and with his military instructions, constantly expounded both to amuse his young mistress. "It was, in fact," she recalled later, "a dead bore." She did not deceive Craven, although she often thought of it. "How, indeed, could I do otherwise, when the Honorable Frederick Lamb was my constant visitor, and talked to me of nothing else?" The Honorable Frederick was Craven's closest friend. "I firmly believe," Harriette wrote, "that...
...those of the 20th century who think that a Harvard Commencement in the 18th century must have been a very dull and colorless affair, I should like to submit the following notes. The first is from the diary of John Rowe, Boston Merchant, for whom the present Rowe's Wharf in Boston was named. July...
...only was the regatta, held on Lake Skaneateles, N. Y., highly successful, but pomp and color known only to the campus were added to the event, making an ordinary regatta look dull and drab by comparison. Since that time collegiate drivers have enjoyed the most profound respect in national racing circles, many of them having battled their way to the top in important events outside the realm of college competition...