Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British weekend in the country lasts from Friday to Monday. It is a pleasant though dull national custom. But guests from Town last weekend had plenty to talk about. Britain's "dullest election within the memory of living man" had dragged out its serpentine length and finally, suddenly snapped a cracker off its tail. Contrary to expert expectations,* final results snowed Labor with the greatest number of seats in the House of Commons...
Said he: "The only persistent criticism of the Conservative Party at this election is that it is dull. I am accused of being unexciting and lacking in thrills! I am glad to feel that the complaint is true...
...diamond, while exhorting our team-mates with quotations from the scriptures and the classics to play better ball. Harvard's bitter chalico may perhaps be sweetened by her realization that she must adhere more rigidly to that musty proverb that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." --Yale News...
...reading appealed in perplexity to its instructor to give some introduction of the strange authors and to explain away some of the difficulties of unlearned dialects. He responded by holding classes regularly during the Reading Period, and was met by the fullest attendance of the year. From bewilderment at dull dialects and a background not understood, his section passed to enjoyment of almost living poetry. For his sacrifice of time which he might have spent at his own tastes, for his generosity in responding to their appeal, and for his kind regard of their welfare, the members of his class...
Back in the dull, depressed days of 1921 President Warren Gamaliel Harding appointed a committee to look into the matter of unemployment, to make a report upon this then burning question. When last week the Unemployment Committee announced its findings, neither President Harding nor unemployment remained a U. S. problem. It was primarily a Hoover Committee that made the report (President Hoover was Committee Chairman while Secretary of Commerce) and prosperity, not unemployment, was the burden of its story. Called upon to view with alarm, the Committee concluded by pointing with pride...