Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WONDERFUL VISIT-H. G. Wells and St. John Ervine wistfully intent on indicating that fallen Angels hit the Earth with a dull thud...
...Republican Discord. "The Executive proposes adherence to the existing World Court. The request falls on dull ears. The Executive demands the Mellon bill and members of his party in both houses of Congress, regular and insurgent, hasten to reject it. He disapproves the Adjusted Compensation Act but Congress reenacts it. Congress passes a measure granting to postal employes an increase in their meager salaries; the President disapproves it. He protests against the restriction on Japanese immigration; Congress adopts it. Whenever before did a party in control of the Executive and of a majority in both houses of Congress present...
...industrial sentiment. Indeed the stock market seems to reflect such an occurrence. Yet the country has survived many major political campaigns, and probably will manage to this year, too. Meanwhile prospects for better business are extraordinarily bright and pronounced, while current business for the most part is extraordinarily dull and unsatisfactory...
While general business is dull this Summer, the same cannot be said of finance. In the matter of vacations, as in many other things, Wall Street is opportunistic. During dull Summers, attendance in the Stock Exchange and in investment and commercial banking circles during July and August is notoriously slim. This Summer, however, the usual vacations are not being taken. Million share days on the Exchange have reappeared. Railroad mergers are not merely being discussed but being effected. Utility propositions are to the fore. The long-suffering bond salesman is coming back into his own again. Despite the sweltering heat...
...boomed its dull, monotonous roar, the crowd became bareheaded, two minutes' silence was observed with reverential solemnity. Then, thousands of melancholy voices sang the old German hymn: Wir treten zum Beten. As the vibrant notes of the hymn found thundering echoes of grief in thousands of hearts, tears welled, men and women allegedly fainted?not from heat, for it was cold?not from crowd roughness, for there was order?but from grief...