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...sophomoric ditties was at an end, and that henceforward the club would sing real music. He introduced it to the recondite mysteries of Handel, Palestrina and Bach. And, amazing as it seems, he was immediately successful. The club took on new life, and the concerts became not only dull things for loyal Harvard alumni to attend but musically important as well. Moreover, other glee clubs began to follow suit, until the old order seems in a fair way to a quiet demise. Glancing through the program, one notes one or two numbers that were composed especially for the club...
...good fellows on the road nowadays, seems like we're getting a better class of hoboes, if you know what I mean.' It was a railroad man speaking. The Burlington railroad yards were hideous with noises of the night, hissing of steam and dull clanging of bells...
Donoghue; two unremarkable Sargents; an effective landscape by a greengrocer, another by a violinist in a cinema theatre, all as definite as roast beef, all competent, all dull. There was, also, one exception...
...What is the law?" is the recurrent question asked by a republican nation. With deliberate speed-though the summer holidays approach-with majestic instancy, nine remote men make answer in thousands of decisions, mostly technical and dull...
...appeals to the intellect and is scornful of appeals to emotions alone. At times, he may have appealed to the emotions, but back of the appeal has been a motive finer and deeper than mere theatrical appeal. I have seen him talk to farmers and workingmen on a dull subject like the tariff, and he can make the tariff question so dramatic that he will carry his audience along until he works up to the climax...