Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then there is that little matter of a Theatre Guild banquet?"the most prodigiously dull dinner of my experience." But despite his misfortune one would not have had him miss it. There were 13 speakers, which may have had something to do with it. It began with Heywood Broun, who "said a few graceful things of no special import and then fled craftily into the night." And it dragged on through all the other twelve, with various victims rising and stealing toward the door, till at length "the gaps in the audience made the room look like an old comb...
...STIFFS?Melbourne Garahan?Seltzer ($2.00). If a goodly number of books of fiction are as dull as fact, here is a book of fact?or so the publishers claim it to be?that is as romantic as fiction. It is impossible to give away the plot, because there is nothing that could really be called a plot. But there are plenty of interesting adventures and extraordinary characters and one can recommend this story (which begins in an oculist's office with a pair of near-sighted eyes) to anybody?which means everybody?who has ever cherished a secret ambition...
...last few years have been lean ones for many of Boston's leading interests and industries. The Massachusetts cotton-spinning trade is glum, mills are closing down. The leather business has been dull for some time, shoemaking has begun to re-establish itself further west. The "coppers," Boston's favorite speculations, have also paid lean dividends, or none...
Unless "stabilizing methods" had been employed, varying from the picturesque operations and announcements of Mr. Livermore (TIME, Nov. 12) to the steel extra dividend (TIME, Nov. 12) and kindred occurrences, business would probably have deteriorated until this Spring, have been dull all Summer and started up in the Fall. The Presidential election, despite assertions to the contrary, would have small influence on this. Owing to "stabilization," conditions are superficially better than we would expect at this time, but practically worse, since a real housecleaning in our business structure was needed. The stabilizing efforts of bankers and corporation directors have succeeded...
...from every one, that what he gives out he gets back; it is a sort of circle. He was so vibrant that I found my heart thumping with excitement, as though I had drunk champagne, which I hadn't! He talks a lot, but talks well; is never dull. Last week Mr. Swope?Herbert Bayard Swope?newspaperman extraordinary and editor plenipotentiary, put over a coup. Swope, executive editor of The New York World, went to Washington in a private car, trailing substantial citizens and potent business men in his wake. He returned home jingling the Democratic National Convention...