Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Menzhinsky's pupil and successor was Genrikh Grigorevich Yagoda, a dull-faced man with a Chaplin mustache under whose regime developed the idea of putting prisoners to work. Even children arrested for "stealing Socialist property" were put into labor camps. The writer Maxim Gorky, a great admirer of Yagoda, glorified "this policy of education by teaching the truths of Socialism. . , ." Gorky added: "People whose historical duty it was to kill some beings in order to free others are martyrs. . . ." Two years later, Yagoda was accused, among other things, of having poisoned Gorky, and condemned to death...
North Croydon is a cluster of geometrically dreary, determinedly middle-class suburbs on the southwestern fringes of London. Its mile after mile of dull, red brick houses are inhabited by shopkeepers, civil servants, office workers. Since the constituency was formed in 1918, North Croydon has been doggedly Conservative...
...hasty coalition of Laborites and Tories rushed to defend the wigs. Conservative Edward Percy Smith said: "Without their official wigs and gowns, [judges] look very odd and ordinary." Laborite Hector Hughes agreed: "I believe," he said, "Mr. Emrys Hughes is seeking to reduce people to dull sartorial drabness...
...year's Jackson Day dinner speech and the civil-rights message. There was no real difference between what these messages said and what a generation of New Dealers had said before. But in Mr. Truman's monotonous twang and Clifford's primer sentences, they just sounded dull. And after the speeches were made, nothing ever seemed to happen...
...dull curtain raiser to the Varsity hockey game at the Arena Saturday night, the Crimson Jayvee skaters bowed to Yale, 4 to 8. The Elis caught the lead in the first period and were never really investment...