Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreigner, who has witnessed all the matches to which he could get tickets, sumo is very much the opposite of being dull. The preparatory ceremonies, consisting of certain prescribed movements of the arms and legs and purification of the ring, are even more interesting than the actual matches. Moreover, between championship bouts a modern innovation is to hold comedy bouts. The sumo men participating are specially trained comedians and acrobats. The antics they go through and the arguments they hold over the decision, when there is one, are far more amusing than the antics of U. S. wrestlers...
Unlike most of his predecessors, President Roosevelt does not hesitate to take vacations from Washington while Congress is in session. Last week, after seven weeks of a very dull session, he decided to slip away for four or five days of fun. Against his trip was the fact that it meant postponing his recommendation for new taxes, which Congress was impatiently awaiting in order to perform its election-year duty of going home as quickly as possible. In favor of it was the fact that Secretary Morgenthau was absent attending the funeral of his mother-in-law, and the President...
...Dull and superfluous are the facts of Dr. Alberto Guani's career. Born of middle-class Catholic parents, he graduated from the University of Montevideo to enter the Uruguayan Foreign Service. He was Minister to Austria from 1911 to 1913, Minister to Belgium until 1925 and since then Minister to France, with occasional trips to represent Uruguay before the League. TIME'S point was precisely that colorless Dr. Guani faced in Comrade Litvinoff a colorful...
...well-dressed plumpish man, who bore a striking resemblance to France's late, great King Louis XVI, was a determined auction bidder in Paris last week for a dull, tarnished guillotine blade said to have cut off the head of His late Majesty. Up went bids from 2,000 francs ($135) until everyone dropped out but the plumpish unknown and that well-known collector of French Revolution mementoes, M. Charles Lievre. In a final spurt to 12,500 francs ($835), the blade went to M. Lievre, along with documents certifying that until 1893 it had remained in the executioner...
...Tower and there found--who comes to bring me a poem. But it be so void of humor I could not accept it and so, I hear, he sends it to Lampy. Whereupon he tells me this little stint be oftentimes very dull and I ought to write about such things as the Wellesley Senior who won ten dollars from an Eliot House Sophomore by swallowing the House Mother's goldfish! Both are still doing nicely in the Wellesley Infirmary. But I already too much of this and so to the office to note the schedule...