Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shiebler, 36, part of whose own education was acquired as a newspaper correspondent and co-author of one of George White's Scandals. Secretary Shiebler decided two years ago that "the law requires the superintendent to make an annual report but does not require that it be dull." With the Board of Education photographer. Ambrose J. Hickey, he spent six months touring New York City's vast school system to catch schoolchildren in unguarded moments...
...picturized school reports still have one grave defect. They have not been able to find text to match their illustrations. Their words are still the bumbling literary efforts of pedagogs, usually dull, often pompous. Sample from the Los Angeles report...
This volume, though bulky, is particularly significant of the modern age. It is a conglomerate and representative collection of works generally in blank verse, blank rhyme, and blank sense, submitted by thousands of residents of Boston and vicinity. At first it appears like a dull, almost unreadable series of names and numbers. The cosmic significance and literary value does not become evident until the reader has become experienced, and usually results in symptoms not unlike an aching in the head and eyes. It shows a tendency towards the method of expression of Gertrude Stein...
Even more praiseworthy is the fact that the telephone company has preserved the secret in order that future large-scale collections of representative natural expression may be made in the same way. There is no indication anywhere in the volume that it is anything but a plain, ordinary, dull telephone directory...
...sleep was not so easy; green, red, lavender, ochre, and buff little creatures began to dance through his ebbing and flowing consciousness. Everything was swaying as though motivated by a giant dish-washing machine. Oh! that dull throbbing around the temples! that clammy, sticky, dry, clogged feeling in his throat and upper tonsils. Would those mittens on his teeth ever wear off? Little pricks and barbed darts of conscience began to torment him as he thought of that ten page paper for Slavic Oology due tomorrow, and on which he had put absolutely no work whatsoever. The professor had been...