Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, the romantic atmosphere which doubtless inspired Anthony Hope's Rudolph Rassendyll is rapidly disintegrating, and while the tourist can still walk ahead, there is a dull sameness of nationality which cannot fail to jar the geographic epicure; the personalities of the small states have been merged with those of their larger neighbors. Just lately, for instance, M. le Prince Helie de Sagan, Duke de Talleyrand-Perigord, having become sensitive, no doubt, to the weight of his increasing years and the accumulations of his unpaid estate taxes, offered for sale his entire holdings to the highest bidder; and now comes...
...Canfu, when a youth who could spin the magic flame silk was nearly consumed in the 'blandishments of a temptress instigated by a wily rival. Save for some provocative muscle dances and a breathless moment when the Delilah seems about to spurn mere clothing, it is picturesque but dull, a pretty ribbon on the notion counter...
...editions of the Russian classics. But the public reads-what? -Tarzan." Explaining why O. Henry, H. G. Wells, Conan Doyle, Jack London and Upton Sinclair are more popular than Russian authors, the newspaper continued: "It is because old Russian literature is out of date, and the new is dry, dull or too subtle for mass com-prehension...
...Harvard prize winner for last year in Professor George Pierce Baker's so-called Workshop. The authoress, Miss Dorothy Heyward, resident of Charleston, S. C, has a gift for dovetailing into her work pretty little tricks of playwriting prestidigitation. But the first act in the aristocratic home is dull and stuffy, and suggests the awful thought that the drawing rooms around Harvard can't be such a much...
...announcement that twenty six percent of the Freshman class is on probation comes as somewhat of a shock to the unsophisticated individual who believes that probation is an academic punishment designed for the occasional dull or lazy student. The figures certainly indicate that the Freshman on probation, if not quite the average student, is far from the abnormal one; and only little less clearly that this form of discipline has begun to lose all significance and to become a mere nuisance...