Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gary, Ind., or a gentleman's Plattsburg. And always he has been more statesman than Tsar. But one thing he cannot do. He cannot explain himself. He cannot express things. He canot touch emotion with winged words. In conversation he is witty, but on the platform he is dull, heavy, too careful of his facts, not sufficiently boisterous. "Do things, but don't boast about them" is his motto. So neither he nor his rich backers (primarily Procter, Ivory Soap man) could sell him to the politicians. It was deep disappointment. Theodore was dead. Was Leonard...
...Dull...
...beginning of the second group be tenors did some excellent singing it he early English numbers by Thomas Weeks and Thomas Morley. The Gusta lolst arrangements of three Hindu chorines were as dull as the other work a Holst which we have heard. The send of these however, was sung with excellent tone and would have been shoutedly a less experienced group. A worst be said for W. B. Wood's excellent work in the third of these hymns...
...seems a pity that this book, with a subject so rich, and fragrant, po- tentially as full of life and color as the Mississippi in the old days, should be dull. For a gambler's anecdotes to be flat it is unforgiveable. Every now and then some life breaks through the crust of monotonous, disorganized narative--it is impossible to pass soberly by the time when the boiler burst and killed fourteen preachers, while the only people saved on the boat were the abandoned souls who were playing roulette in the barber shop under Mr. Devol's chaperonage...
RELATIONS-Sir Harry Johnston -Harper ($2). People who were enthusiastic about The Gay Dombeys and Mrs. Warren's Daughter are going to be faintly disappointed by Sir Harry's new opus. He has been careless and a mite dull. His people are a rich Australian who marries the Governor's daughter-and their many relations. It is the kind of book in which plot matters not a whit and conversation, behavior and obiter dicta are everything. The first is stilted, the second unreal-having breakfasted, these upper-class Brit-ishers "wiped their lips and put down their...