Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other speakers, taking windy advantage of their prerogative to state national objectives unchecked, met with less consideration. As in the "real" League, ushers were supplied to carry messages from national group to national group. Comely Radcliffe maidens, cleverly clad in white, which contrasted flatteringly with the dull winter garb of their visiting sisters, flitted constantly from contingent to contingent, often transporting billet dour or notes reading "Just to make use of the usher." So the League dispelled ennui...
Fred Astaire pirouettes gracefully, his whirling legs rend the air to the tune of the Carioca. He taps one foot and then the other to the floor, and it is impossible to hear any discordance between the music and his dull thuds. Surprisingly enough his partner in the dances. Ginger Rogers, puts up an excellent front, and though she is not in the same class as Mr. Astaire, second honors are hers...
...clock guns boomed in the distance, followed by the dull patter of muffled drums.* A detachment of mounted police in blue capes and white helmets led the procession. Then came the Guides, Belgium's crack infantry regiment, with little tassels dangling from their caps. British sailors followed, and behind them a dismounted detachment of the 5th Inniskilling Dragoons, the British regiment of which Albert was Colonel-in-Chief. French troops preceded the Paris post of the American Legion. The flags of the Belgian Army formed a quilt of fluttering black, yellow and red against the grey sky. Every regiment...
...night one of them heard a dull boom from below. He knew what that meant. Someone had banked the furnace fire too heavily and a puff of exploding coal gas had blown open the door. Sleepily he stumbled down cellar, slammed the door shut, went back to bed. He did not notice that a part of the chimney pipe had also been blown...
COUNTLESS tomes have been published and are still being written eulogizing the courage, character, and pioneer spirit of our colonial ancestors, books which to many are dull accounts of uninteresting trials on the barren Atlantic coast of those who felt they must found a new country. Most of these tales deal entirely with the New World aspects of these colonies. Here is a book which takes up not primarily the American side, but the English antecedents of the foundings of America...