Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Offensively the Crimson team was slovenly and dull. When it tried to break through the scrub line, it was powerless. Not until the last few minutes of play did Coach Fisher's eleven score a first down...
...Crime in the Whistler Room gallantly attempted to be introspective and exceedingly modern and succeeded in being dull. It is the opening production of the season by the group of young and thoroughly intelligent persos of whom Kenneth MacGowan, Robert Edmund Jones and Eugene O'Neill are the leaders. Unhappily, they selected as a starter a complex and over-worded play...
...Lampoon to mitigate the relentless criticism of this morning's review. I have not yet seen the number which Mr. Code so ruthlessly and so wittily attacks. He may not, therefore, take me to task for combatting him on particular and inconsequential grounds. Perhaps the number may be as dull as he intimates. I daresay it is, but that is beside the point. I care not a whit what Mr. Code thinks of any particular number...
...without poignancy, is no more than a snapshot of an overworked chambermaid and her temperamental mistress. The Portrait describes the selling of a fake Old Master. Young Archimedes discovers an infant mathematical prodigy, recounts his frustration and early suicide. All the stories are careful, ambitious work. All are dull...
...many cases vividly drawn, but in the main they are subordinate to the examination of the intricacies of the social structure. Peculiarly in a position to know the very rich and the very poor, together with the legal mechanism of their interrelationships, he has the knack of dragging dull facts out of the textbooks into moving existence...