Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dull morning last fortnight brokers on the New York Cotton Exchange were getting ready to take off their linen office coats and go out to lunch. Suddenly for no apparent reason one trader sprang forward to the ring, announced he would sell cotton for 11.80? per lb. - 20 points below the price at which that staple has been virtually pegged by the Government for seven months. A violent wave of selling broke over the market, uncovering nests of stop orders. The price fell 10 to 20 points on each transaction. May contracts sank to 10.25?. Brokers snouted themselves hoarse...
...Woman in Red" marks our abrupt descent to the ridiculous. We try hard to approach Gene Raymond films with objective eye but critical impartiality is impossible where he is concerned especially when the picture is in addition both serious and dull...
Instanter a dull market became a buying bedlam. Stocks soared, shorts were squeezed, new crowds appeared in brokers' boardrooms. Government bonds cracked, endangering the current $2,400,000,000 refunding operations. Foreign exchange markets in London, Paris and Manhattan were suddenly overturned as the dollar plummeted. Pound sterling, which had been sinking alarmingly for days, shot up 5½? to $4.78 in a few moments. The U. S. Stabilization Fund desperately dumped hundreds of millions of francs...
...convicted Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Defense Counsel Edward J. Reilly said in Brooklyn: "One look at that jury was enough. . . . One of the women jurors had a tremendous appetite and ate tremendous meals. How in God's name could she return to the jury box after lunch without being dull? We would have had no more chance if we had brought John the Baptist there as a defense witness...
...moment the editors feel that The American Spectator is becoming a routine job, is getting dull and is similarly continuing merely as a matter of habit, they will call it a day and will retire in a body to their estates."-The American Spectator, November...