Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Easton--Dull lecturer for undergraduates...
Providing a fitting climax for a day with never a dull moment, a trainlet of three trolley cars hitched together was derailed by a split switch in the center of the Square at about five o'clock last night. A crowd of interested students, eager to help the baffled surface car operators, soon gathered and was augmented by rush-hour hordes emerging from the nearby subway entrance...
...rhymes with peachy) lives on a San Fernando Valley ranch, drives ten miles into town for dinner because he finds his home "too lonely." He is almost 6 ft. tall, 170 lb., fond of practical jokes of which his fellow professionals frequently make him the victim. Accused of being dull in his love scenes, Ameche has given cinemagazines the following alibi: "Valentino was the impetuous type . . . then he would slow up and make the ladies chase him. Mrs. Ameche would not care for this type of lover...
Analogies of the sea haunt Virginia Woolf: "As for the beauty of women, it is like the light on the sea, never constant to a single wave. They all have it; they all lose it. Now she is dull and thick as bacon; now transparent as a hanging glass." Virginia Woolf's novels are all attempts to answer the same inexhaustible question: What is the nature of life? "The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account...
Once we went to the other extreme and rotted in Widener during the holidays preparing for a make-up exam. Never do it. It dries the skin. One's eyes become dull and glazed, like prisoners' in Sing Sing. And one can't keep one's self respect, cating in Hayes Bickford or Lowell House...