Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author Sidney Perelman, sometime cartoonist, funnyman and scenarist for the Marx Brothers, is famed for his comic writing in which clichés, puns, misunderstandings, paraphrases of oldtime cinema captions, tall talk and dull talk are jumbled together. But All Good Americans, a naturalistic play on hardboiled lovers, is not improved by being peppered with Perelman jokes, new, old, sometimes funny. The lines and action are sophisticated, superficial, curiously unreal...
Mathematics is dull and hard. Logic is dull and relatively easy. A little concentration before April Hours and finals will bring the average student through safely and without too much trouble. The person who enjoys having his head stuffed with unique formulas which in some magic fashion tie themselves up with simplified and inverted and mangled sentences may gloat over the course. For the average person the April Moon will compete heavily with logic for interest. Application is apt to bring an A; indifference is apt (for the sake of circumlocution) to bring trouble...
...author is to be consistently and persistently satiric. When he remembers this simple fact "Ever the Twain" is an amusing play, and, fortunately, these moments come with sufficient frequency to prevent it from becoming boring; but in the stretches in between the high spots it is pretty dull stuff...
...entered 37 six-day races, won 17. Alfred Letourner, teamed with Peden this autumn for the first time, is an excitable little Frenchman who wolfs six thick mutton chops at a swoop. His oldtime partner was now his opponent: Belgian Gerard Debaets, a clown who enlivens dull hours of the grind by sailing around the track with a parasol, a bustle or false whiskers...
Cleveland as a letter-writer was this side of dull, but he was impressive. Many a reader of this collection will agree with its editor that its author "possessed his measure of faults, and was pent in by even more limitations than usually afflict the race of politicians. But he had a soul that in its simple and unpretending fashion was truly heroic, and to touch his garment is to receive virtue...