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Word: dulling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Distaff Side (by John Van Druten; Dwight Deere Wyman and Auriol Lee, producers). This quiet study of womanly nobility serves chiefly to break the monotony of dirty but dull plays which all but engulfed the Broadway stage last month. In it Sybil Thorndyke, Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire, returns for the first time in 24 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 8, 1934 | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...Boston: "Charlie Chan In London"--not the best of this series of mystery films based upon Earl Derr Bigger's stories about the philosophic detective Chan. This theatre has the added disadvantage of a long and typically dull vaudeville bill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 10/2/1934 | See Source »

R.K.O. Boston: "Charlie Chan In London"--not the best of this series of mystery films based upon Earl Der Bigger's stories about the philosophic detective Chan. This theatre has the added disadvantage of a long and typically dull vaudeville bill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...typical delinquent, dull in school, quit early to work as a servant or factory hand. She played with bad boys and girls, would not go to Sunday school, often ran away from home or "bunked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRIME: Why Girls Go Wrong | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...studious, always hard up, its students have been little changed by Depression. They dress drably and, under the large, stern shadow of Mary Emma Woolley, lead rather drab lives. There is no cinema house in South Hadley; the pictures President Woolley brings to the college are usually old, often dull. This year girls may smoke at specified times and places, a major concession on the part of Miss Woolley who has long believed that "no lady would smoke." Mount Holyoke girls feel a profound respect for Miss Woolley and are proud to have her as their president, but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Five Sisters | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

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