Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be tipped heavily toward salaries. Like the students, the instructors are marked by a vast intellectual skepticism. So is President Leigh, a, bespectacled scholar whom students like despite his impersonality. When the outside lecturers, who come to Bennington nearly every evening, occasionally turn out to be stupid or dull, President Leigh is not above accepting a wink from a bored student, winking back at the girl...
...away something shrieked. Then the dull glow of a headlight stabbed out of the fog. Before the terrified actors could move, straight through them and their bus plowed the special train of Realmleader Adolf Hitler, traveling at more than 100 kilometers per hour...
This week's feature attraction is the screen adaptation of last year's musical comedy success "Music in the Air." The music and lyrics by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein have been retained and are the redeeming feature of an otherwise dull and tiresome operetta adaptation...
Speech followed dull speech. The Congress adopted a platform consisting of all the familiar things that the men who go to such congresses favor: a balanced budget, the gold standard, a modified NRA, an end to government competition with business. But genuine economic articulation came not from the practicing-economists who were delegates to the Congress but from the practicing politicians of the New Deal?Daniel Roper, Raymond Moley; Donald Richberg...
With his familiar eye-rolling and handclapping, Eddie Cantor prances through a dull, uninspired musical comedy extravaganza "Kid Millions" at Loew's Orpheum this week. The picture follows approximately the same comedy lines as did its predecessors, Eddie Cantor plays the same type of part and sings the same manner of songs, and as before myriads of luscious girls are whisked past the camera's lens in baffling geometric designs. If you liked these elements before you will probably like them again. As an extra special treat the final sequence is produced in gay Technicolor and handled as well...