Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crusader, the Times became the greatest newspaper in the U. S. by the simple but difficult procedure of giving more news than any other. It won the first Pulitzer Prize in 1918 for publishing many official War documents and statesmen's speeches in full. Often it was dull, but never incomplete. It shunned comic strips, and breezy feature stories but was the first newspaper in the U. S. to offer rotogravure...
...society before 1929, and still largely unread. Das Kapital now figures at piecemeal third-hand in many a topical argument, news story, sermon, book. The swelling spate of "proletarian novels" is a form of Marxian exegesis. Often too obviously propaganda for Marxian dogmas, they are apt to make dull if uncomfortable reading for non-Marxians. But last year Robert Cantwell's The Land of Plenty, last week Robert Whitcomb's Talk United States! showed readers of every shade that a novel could be first-rate as well as proletarian...
...master stroke of Empire tact, His Majesty's Government last week gave Canada its first commoner for Governor-General. Canadians have grown heartily weary of the King.'s man they have now, dull, finical Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, ninth Earl of Bessborough. Last week Governor-General Bessborough, wife & daughter were in western Canada on a "farewell tour." By all etiquet, his successor should not have been named until after Bessborough finishes presiding at the King's Silver Jubilee ceremonies in Canada. But George V's popularity in his dominions is more important to the Government than Bessborough...
...Travesty of Truth." In Paris meanwhile tall, blond Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin was answering curvesome, darkling Realmleader Adolf Hitler's decree of Rearmament. Facts may be dull but M. Flandin, opening quietly, opposed facts to Der Reichsfuhrer's emotional outpouring of certain "truths" devoutly believed in the Fatherland...
Orders on the London Stock Exchange may be and often are executed by clerks substituting for regular members. On the New York Stock Exchange, only members may buy & sell, and on dull days the clerks have even a duller time than brokers. A year ago when trading became rutted at about 700,000 shares per day, the floor clerks in desperation devised a nameless game which has almost all the elements of real trading. For a long time the idle floor members ignored the game, continuing to spend the daily five-hour Stock Exchange session at backgammon or horseplay. After...