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...first the stock market turned dull, daily sales declining beneath a million shares toward the week's close. The price movement in stocks was distinctly irregular, some issues holding their recent advances well under obvious short selling, while others declined. Much of the selling pressure on the stock market is believed to have been exerted by odd-lot investors, as a record volume of transactions by odd-lot houses is reported. On Tuesday, however, a sharp rally in industrial shares ensued...
...appeal of the book is extremely limited. To the general reader it is bound to be about equally dull, confusing, ridiculous, and shocking. It is a book compounded in equal parts of the most painfully literal and the most elusively symbolic. The combination is a shade trying. And there is an irritating lack of humor. It is hard to sympathize with anyone who takes himself as seriously as do both Mr. Anderson and his hero. It is altogether too easy to allow one's sense of the ab- surdity of a good many of its episodes to cloud...
HOMELY LILLA - Robert Herrick- Harcourt. Lilla is even more stupid than homely. As she grows up she gradually discovers that, despite her plainness, she has a considerable power over men. She marries an amiable school principal, is completely unhappy with him in a dull, acquiescing sort of way, and then leaves him. She finally finds a degree of happiness with another man. The book is a painstaking and outspoken examination of her problems...
That was all, Less than twenty minutes had passed but it must have been a dull fellow who did not carry with him the memory of those twenty minutes through the remainder of the day. It got inside as, if nothing more, an emotional experience. It left one conscious of what lies back all exteriors. FREDERICK ORN BARTLETT...
Anyone who has seen a "composite photograph of the average American" has had a morbid distrust of all "composites" ever since. But the "composite Dartmouth man" in the Investigation of Time plays no dull, uninteresting part. He is not a mere paper-weights figure. He steps out from the statistics with an individuality of his own. That he is a man of taste and refinement is borne out by the fact that he allows forty minutes each day for dressing, and on Sundays ten minutes more. He is a man of varied interests, spending half an hour...