Word: dulle
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...Scene. A huge room be-frescoed in tarnished red and gold -the Great Hall of the British Foreign Office. At either side three tall windows, dull-bright with winter sunshine. Down the centre a huge table, covered with blue baize and vermilion-splashed by three official despatch boxes. Around the table a group of the most distin- guished statesmen in Europe-all clad in mourning (for England's Dowager Queen). At smaller tables other statesmen and ladies-like- wise in black. At one end of the room eight rows of seats, tiered like a grandstand, for the press. Above...
...alarmist, whither-are-we drifting attitude of Mr. Blake toward your recent editorials, may I take issue? Your editorial page and in fact the whole paper has shown more alertness, vigor, and originality than at any time in the past six years. Mr. Blake must be accustomed to rather dull and obvious editorial fare so to condemn intelligent journalism exercising a legitimate right of leadership. Very truly yours, L. B. Young...
...woods and fields that a century ago lay just outside the college gates are now laid out in monotonous brick suburbs and great industrial plants, and in this dull mess of modern buildings the University stands as a tiny oasis of gray stone and green gardens...
...League of Nations is appropriately found in that most peaceful of Swiss cities, Geneva. Exotic female visitors by the dozen, score and million cry out, "How perfect!" and the slightly world-weary assistants of Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General to the League since its inception respond, "How dull...
...Shakespeare said it with much subtler whimsicality, "as you like it." "I don't care whether you laugh or weep", says the "enfant terrible" of the Russian Theatre, "as long as I have succeeded in arousing your interest, in stimulating your curiosity, in helping you while away a few dull hours in this dull existence of yours, in a word, if I have succeeded in amusing you I have fulfilled my mission as a good showman. My job is to amuse not to instruct. Nay, more. If I have succeeded in bringing laughter in your heart and strange wonder...