Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First Apple"--Shubert. A rather dull play replete with aged humorous platitudes. Conrad Nagel is better on the stage than he is on the screen...
...plot deals both with gangsters and with prizefighters; consequently, it is pretty dull. Myrna Loy is the mistress of Otto Kruger, as the big-time crook and gambler, Willie Ryan. She meets Max Baer, whom she loves because "he is a big kid." In altruistic fashion, Ryan gives her up; naturally, she has her troubles with her boxer, since he is very healthy and cannot be satisfied with one woman. Nevertheless, the picture ends happily in a terrific match between Baer and Carnera, and in established love between the central couple...
...make her look either like the bedraggled murderess at the scene of the crime or like Mary, Queen of Scots. Yet the baroque stumblings, wrist-wavings, jaw-droppings, head-wagglings with which Miss Nazimova documents Doctor Monica seriously involved Manhattan audiences in a play that should have been a dull and outdated feminist tract...
...greatest teams that the Cadets have ever fielded, but a Harvard victory would mean more than one ray of light and hope for the Crimson eleven. Harvard has been a tantalizing outfit this year, with its bright spots brighter than bright, and the duller moments inexcusably dull. It has clicked, and it has failed to click, but the impression has always been left that it is almost ready to go. The club has been dangling the apple before Tantalus too long, and a break is about...
...young animal that has lost its mother in the nursing period and is either reared by hand or left to shift for itself. It may be applied to a calf, a horse, or a lamb. The animal usually shows its lack of proper nourishment, being pot-bellied with a dull lustreless coat and a general appearance of undernourishment. The word is also used as an adjective, the term "dogied'' meaning having lost its mother and showing the effect in lack of growth and poor proportions. Cowboys when driving a herd find the small weak animals in the rear...