Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office which he won as Herbert Hoover's running-mate in 1928 overwhelmed this onetime jockey and grandson of a Kaw Indian with a vast new selfimportance. He presided over the Senate with imposing dignity, began making dull speeches on all public occasions. Punctilious in his role as the Capital's No. 1 diner-out, he allowed his exuberant half-sister and official hostess to make a finish fight of her war for social precedence with the Speaker's lady, Alice Roosevelt Longworth. "Call me Mr. Vice President," he commanded his oldtime friends...
Next day he again voluntarily returned to the Senate hearing at which Partners Thomas Lamont and Russell Leffingwell gave tedious testimony about financing after the U. S. entered the War. Finally Mr. Morgan expressed his disappointment. "I guess we are in for another dull day." Before catching a midday train back to ' Manhattan he shook hands with Senator Nye and his fellow investigators...
...French sugar tycoon, who in 1903 hatched a scheme for irrigating the Sahara Desert, proclaimed himself "Jacques I, Emperor of the Sahara," fitted out an expedition to conquer his new province. Routed, he sailed for the U. S., established himself in Westbury, L. I., furnished copy on dull days by such stunts as uniforming and drilling an army of messenger boys and farmhands. In 1919 his "Empress" shot him dead...
...first place, to criticize your headline, "Crew Prospects Dull", Charlie Whiteside said nothing to that effect. The crew squad has five members of last year's varsity, six of last year's Jayvees, all of the combination, seven of the Freshman, and a number of men who were unavailable last year. This is more material than has been available for three years...
...recent snowfall inspired last Sunday night's meeting, a spontaneous affair heralded only by the dull thud of cast off shoes dropping on Winthrop floors. Issuing forth into the quadrangle the nude members were soon in the midst of their rites...