Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About "Scandal Street," the co-feature, little that is complimentary can be said. It has no plot, no star, and no acting; it is dull, familiar, and insipid. Its one redeeming feature is the rather pretty face of one Louise Campbell, the poor innocent girl who is almost ruined by the villainous town gossips...
...succeed. Placing Yardlings under a tutor for advanced work does not mean that they should do tutorial in the Sophomoric sense. With four courses and sometimes English A, and the necessary balancing of extracurricular activities with the academic diet, even bright Freshmen who find courses dull and repetitious, carry, nevertheless, a full program. Therefore the purpose of "tutorial" should be only to teach future concentrators the meaning and significance of tutorial. Opening their eyes to what the field officers, which of course will involve the introduction of new material, is wiser than assigning too much reading and too many reports...
...exciting and free-scoring third period just about tells the story of the game. The first two periods produced extremely dull and slow hockey. The Tigers held a 2-1 lead going into the third period. But after Turner had made it 3-1 for the Orange and Black at 4:11 in the final chapter, the whole complexion of the game was completely changed...
That all conservative undergraduate opinion is not necessarily unoriginal or dull seems amply proven by the recently published platform of the "Young Conservatives." Any organization which states: "We favor depriving all persons on relief of the right to vote until they again become self-supporting" is cooking food for thought and discussion. We may not agree with all their fifteen suggestions for better government; but if they can begin a virulent argument with such an organization as the Student Union, may the battle rage with long and sensible fury...
Author O'Connor writes in a bold, colloquial, summarizing prose, with paragraphs trailing off into dull anticlimaxes ("When he got so he couldn't stand it any longer he'd go into Phoenix and get blind-leaping drunk and spend too much dough and make a fool out of himself"). Inadequate for detailing such complex figures, as O'Rielly, this style works well in accounting for dumb, dangerous Bill Crockett, who develops from a cowboy to a highwayman, but can never understand why his companions grin knowingly or sigh wearily when he talks about...