Word: dulle
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Lady Astor, asked about the old cry of "hang the Kaiser" : "I think it is far worse than death for a man who thinks he was sent from Heaven to rule the world to be locked up in a Dutch village with a dull wife...
...number of people and to interest them in books, it is a journalistic performance of merit, and I find it always interesting. It publishes many illustrations in black and white, some of which are good and some of which are not. Its chief merit is that it is seldom dull-and I can think of. few better recommendations for a magazine of this sort. The Saturday Review is as authoritative as all followers of Editor Canby knew it would be. Its editorials are clear, its reviewers carefully chosen. Its essays, if somewhat academic, have a certain charm. Mr. Morley...
Offensively the Crimson team was slovenly and dull. When it tried to break through the scrub line, it was powerless. Not until the last few minutes of play did Coach Fisher's eleven score a first down...
...Crime in the Whistler Room gallantly attempted to be introspective and exceedingly modern and succeeded in being dull. It is the opening production of the season by the group of young and thoroughly intelligent persos of whom Kenneth MacGowan, Robert Edmund Jones and Eugene O'Neill are the leaders. Unhappily, they selected as a starter a complex and over-worded play...
...Lampoon to mitigate the relentless criticism of this morning's review. I have not yet seen the number which Mr. Code so ruthlessly and so wittily attacks. He may not, therefore, take me to task for combatting him on particular and inconsequential grounds. Perhaps the number may be as dull as he intimates. I daresay it is, but that is beside the point. I care not a whit what Mr. Code thinks of any particular number...