Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrats should nominate and if the nation should elect Mr. Reed as President, there would be few dull moments during his administration. Instead of the unquotable voice of the present White House spokesman, tart epigrams would come bounding out the White House door. "President" Reed would undoubtedly go before Congress in person, equipped with messages which some might call "shocking." Whether Reedability would redound to the good of the country is, of course, a matter of opinion...
...Edge of New Jersey, a man twice her age. Today no one can say that it has not been a happy marriage, that Mrs. Edge has not added a youthful zest to Washington society, that she has not brightened the lives of unhappy Congressional wives at many an otherwise dull luncheon or dinner. This January she was undoubtedly surprised and flattered to hear that she had come within a few votes of being elected president of the Congressional Club...
...Peers, even Edward of Wales, have matched their blood with its blue uniform. That the blooded Bullingdons, incapable in the past of anything more sprightly than throaty singing and waving neckless bottles, should have attempted a public spectacle with hockey sticks, copper kettles and chunks of coal, was inexcusably dull...
...manipulating the intricate machinery of the human mind. Attacking cinema with the full venom of a legitimate playwright, he manipulates his customary close-ups and fadeouts of existence, real and unreal, seeming and serious. A mystic, a believer in man's supernatural endowment, he finds nothing too lowly, dull or grotesque to serve his purpose-a beggars' shelter, a dusty country road, a flyblown tavern. One who speculates on the borders of insanity, he never long departs from concrete dramatization. Shoot is as full of action as a wild west show, as full of metaphysics as a German...
Biographer Emil Ludwig is no dull historian, neither is he a manufacturer of fiction. He takes the story of Napoleon, rips away the nimbus of legend, builds upon the facts of history a character that would stagger any novelist. He peeps into Napoleon's bedroom on his wedding night; he thunders across France with Napoleon in his battle carriage with maps swinging on the walls. Wisely, Mr. Ludwig has made the diaries, memoirs, reported conversations and 60,000 letters of Napoleon the bulwarks of the biography. Few men have written so much and so interestingly about themselves as did Napoleon...