Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news." But as I understand it, that is, supposed to be TIME'S business. However, TIME sometimes publishes statements as news that are anything but news. In your issue of Sept. 28, Page 30, Column 2, you say that a contemporary of yours, The Independent, is "a very dull and amateurish sheet indeed." This isn't news; it is simply . . . opinion . . . The present writer has for several years been a reader of The Independent, and he regrets that he cannot agree with your editor that this paper is either dull or amateurish...
...meat cleaver in a hall bedroom. Such lack of consideration for reporters, such neglect of the movie career lying open to the artistic murderer brings one to the conclusion that the author of "Fu Manchu", anxious for his monopoly of mystery, has bribed the vengeful Chinese to be deliberately dull. If this guess be true, the tong member who so prostitutes his art, richly deserves the deportation awaiting...
...rough village on the road to Nashville in 1788. They have made their characters soft spoken, close shooting gentlemen and trappers. Unfortunately they have included too much of the soft speaking and only two close shooting climaxes. In other words the play is too long, dangerously wordy, and often dull...
Nevertheless, those who have little interest in writing would find his course dull, for he exhibits nothing that is flashy, as a more objective and less lofty spirit would be prone to do. His humor is quiet, his satire gentle, yet they are all the more refined for being do. And not the least of the recommendations for his course is that Mr. Hersey is before all things courteous and innately gentlemanly...
...Wife Who Wasn't Wanted-The tears of Irene Rich must be highly profitable liquid. Again she is playing the mother who splits with her husband. This time because, as District Attorney, he was going to prosecute his own son for manslaughter. Fairly dull...