Word: boringly
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...With a very British sense of humor. When a distinguished bore came to lunch and was in full drone, Sir William Nicholson would give a signal, whereupon the whole family would jump up, dash madly around the table, and plump down again in their seats as if nothing had happened...
...cloud." In two years the program had not changed appreciably. By last weekend more than 60 separate resolutions had been dumped into the laps of conference subcommittees. Many, like Austria's pet project for an international conference in Vienna to standardize the A pitch in the musical scale, bore all the earmarks of a bid for a slice of celestial pork...
...Young and Fair, though a botch, is by no means a bore. There is always far too much happening, far too much threatening. And an all-female cast acts the play to the hilt-and at moments quite convincingly...
Like Britain's Princess Elizabeth, Egypt's Queen Farida was once an enthusiastic Girl Guide. Unlike Elizabeth, she never bore a son, and in Egypt, where only male heirs count, that can be important...
...most beautiful women in the world, was every bit as Westernized as her friend Farida. She never learned to like her new home. Mohamed Reza Pahlevi built her a palace in Teheran and cast off two mistresses to show his devotion, but it did no good. Fawzia bore him one child-a girl-but she refused to speak his language or attend public functions...