Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...pitiful sight of Hollywood attempting a classic of character and turning out a turgid Grade B pot-boiler is now on view for the second week at the Keith Memorial in "Primrose Path." Unoriginal in conception, dull--often interminable--in pace and direction, it tells the story of a sweet young thing (Ginger Rogers) caught in the sordid atmosphere created by a prostitute-mother, a constantly drunken father, and an incredibly cruel grandmother. Falling in love with Joel McCrea because he nearly kills her by reckless driving, she conceals her true identity, has the usual misunderstandings, and emerges happy ever...
...Fiedler's lively baton, carries on nightly with overtures, semi-classical favorites, and light tone-poems. The audience listens lightly and lolls around tables guzzling beers. Tonight Mr. Fiedler's gentleman present their standard gourmand's fare. Music like Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," interesting harmonically but otherwise dull, the Brahms Fifth Hungarian Dance, and the unbreakable Blue Danube Waltz, are there for those who can still bear them. Of greater relish is the delightful fantasy "Fugue and Variations on Under the Spreading Chestnut-Tree" by Weinberger, one of the sensations of the past season. The ubiquitous Russians Moussorgsky...
...group [Vassar women] seem to be pugnacious feminists. ... A dash of snobbishness comes in the intellectual line sometimes. . . . None of them I've met is dull, although in a few scattered cases it might seem a public duty to strangle them. As a group I'd rate them high in intelligence, sincerity and the good solid qualities that make good citizens, friends and especially wives...
Heretofore, the inquisitive layman has been forced to stand in awe outside the wooden fence, listening mystified to the dull roar of the great machine. Now, for the first time, he will be able to find out just what is going on inside by reading "Why Smash Atoms?" by Arthur K. Soloman, research associate in Physics and Chemistry, which will be published tomorrow by the Harvard University Press...
Respectful or at least conscientious biographies of U. S. historical figures are less likely to be considered dull nowadays than in the late debunking era. A few recent biographies seem to justify readers in thus hearkening to their better natures...