Word: dullness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Black Shirts. Stald Sever may continue to enjoy its annual laugh; the provisions dealer will not lose a profitable Black Shirts. Stald Sever may continue to enjoy its annual laugh; the provisions dealer will not lose a profitable trade; the prophet still has a potential wall for dull seasons. The three chorus their thanks to Allston and to New Haven, and silence settles over the fields and the fraternity houses for another ten months...
...personage with truly ecclesiastical majesty is the Cadillac-Fleetwood Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michael Angelical in dull reds, blues, greens, gold...
When news of the Marconi collapse spread to the Stock Exchange floor, a selling movement produced sharp declines in several of the favorite dull issues. The advance of call money from 8 to 10%, and the anticipation of large increases in loans to brokers also helped unsettle the market. Radio Corp. of America dropped more than 12 points, Montgomery Ward, Sears Roebuck, Wright Aero, Victor Talking Machine, Packard Motor and many another stock declined from 5 to 15 points. Other slumping stocks also began to climb back, the market finally re-asserting its prevailing bullish trend. Observers pointed out that...
...dull week for the President. At press conference on Tuesday he had next to nothing to say. This seemed too bad in view of the fact that there was present an unusual number of foreign correspondents, especially British-arrived in Washington to watch what Congress does about the Kellogg Treaty and the cruiser-building bill, and to get background for the inauguration of the Hoover regime. President Coolidge took the opportunity to explain to the foreigners that the reason he has the U. S. embassies abroad hand out copies of his speeches-such as the Armistice Day announcement about naval...
...once unshakable bond connecting Law students, midnight oil, and lack of time for activities has been at least slightly loosened by the injection of a competitive key into the dry labors of the men from the North. The old dogma of the graduate's dull life may still hold firmly, but a Harvard-Yale debate by these same graduates gives an opening for its refutation...