Word: dulle
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...scheduled 20-round fight in Vienna between handsome Georges Carpentier, French heavyweight pugilist, and Arthur Townley, British light heavyweight champ, proved to be a dull, short, sharp affair...
...present day by most people with only momentary qualms. Teaching a man a trade and allowing him to work for a living while under confinement is a much better way of moulding his future reactions to society than forcing him to brood in solitary confinement for a period of dull and fruitless years...
...however, the romantic atmosphere which doubtless inspired Anthony Hope's Rudolph Rassendyll is rapidly disintegrating, and while the tourist can still walk ahead, there is a dull sameness of nationality which cannot fail to jar the geographic epicure; the personalities of the small states have been merged with those of their larger neighbors. Just lately, for instance, M. le Prince Helie de Sagan, Duke de Talleyrand-Perigord, having become sensitive, no doubt, to the weight of his increasing years and the accumulations of his unpaid estate taxes, offered for sale his entire holdings to the highest bidder; and now comes...
...Canfu, when a youth who could spin the magic flame silk was nearly consumed in the 'blandishments of a temptress instigated by a wily rival. Save for some provocative muscle dances and a breathless moment when the Delilah seems about to spurn mere clothing, it is picturesque but dull, a pretty ribbon on the notion counter...
...editions of the Russian classics. But the public reads-what? -Tarzan." Explaining why O. Henry, H. G. Wells, Conan Doyle, Jack London and Upton Sinclair are more popular than Russian authors, the newspaper continued: "It is because old Russian literature is out of date, and the new is dry, dull or too subtle for mass com-prehension...