Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exotic loot was irreplaceable. Among the missing butterflies were specimens rare beyond price-an Adaluma urumelia, silky white tinged with blue; an Ogyris zozine splendida, the only one of its black and metallic-blue type ever known to have been netted; several Diana Moonbeams, whose dull purple shading excites collectors just as a light excites a moth...
...America is a cozy little country consisting of three small states, California, Kentucky and Texas. . . . There used to be another state called Georgia, but that was away back in history days. . . . The history of America is short and easy to remember. There have been two internal wars: a dull skirmish with the English about tea, which was all right once they got rid of Benedict Arnold, and a really dressy struggle between the North and the South. The North won, and were right, but the South, who lost, were nicer. After that, nothing happened until . . . some people called doughboys went...
...bunkhouse, 70 men lounged on the benches or in the double-decker bunks, reading pulp magazines by the dull oil lamps. The rafters over the hot stoves were festooned with drying socks. As soon as the poker players cleared the cards and money from the table, the minister set up his small silver cross and two candles and began to talk...
Pennsylvania's Senator Francis Myers had won a surprise victory in 1944, but he was too predictably dull; Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings stood too far to the political right; New York's ex-Senator Jim Mead had been beaten to a frazzle by Tom Dewey last November; and New York's ex-Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was just a little too unpredictable. New York's present Mayor Bill O'Dwyer fitted a lot of the requirements, but he is constitutionally ineligible, since he was born in Eire...
...unique, not available to the national magazines. The long account of Kangaroo Island, by Stanley Geist, describes this Pacific Lichfield calmly and contemplatively. Luckily, he avoided merely giving the reader a sadistic thrill, and instead analyzes the sociological reasons for the brutality, though sometimes as the price of being dull...