Word: dullest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME is my favorite magazine. It puts life and color into the dullest news topics. Its rapier thrusts puncture shams, deflate politicians; it illuminates the darkest corners of the world with its wit and wisdom. But that is not what I started out to say. In a review of the recent Kentucky Derby [TIME, May 11], which you generously and correctly described as "the nation's greatest horse race," you state that hundreds of celebrities and 70,000 other enthusiasts "made their way to shabby old Churchill Downs...
...make things mentally easy for even the dullest, the official organ of Communist Youth, the Komsomolskaya Pravda, carried an arresting account of doings on New Year's Eve in one of Moscow's district locals of the Young Communists. Just as Grandfather Frost began handing out presents to Red moppets, a Red youth interrupted the festivities by shouting, "Stop! Comrades, you are making a terrible ideological mistake. Trees in the Communist society are meant for such serious use as the building of homes for the proletariat. Comrades, I order you to go home! Otherwise the whole meaning...
...seeks that precious jewel with all his heart. The talk was of travel; yet not travel of the common sort but of the imagination. For it is known to the Vagabond and those who have followed his trails that without imagination the richest course is bare; with it the dullest facts ascend those clouds of interest...
...Deal was going to run greedy fingers into their pants' pockets and pick out more of the money they had been saving for their heirs. In June President Roosevelt formally initiated this operation by proposing to Congress his taxation-for-social-reform program. Thereafter even the dullest and most irresponsible millionaire could see that, unless he started passing on his capital under the present estate and gift taxes, his heirs would get considerably less than he intended under the revenue rates soon to be enacted by Congress. How many wealthy taxpayers began to "beat the gun," as President Roosevelt...
Anybody but W.C. Fields would have a difficult time making "It's a Gift" an entertaining cinema, but the premier genius of cinematic humor has already proven his ability to diffuse even the dullest of material with a spirit of universally appealing humor, and by dial of his admirable skill "It's a Gift" is a truly amusing film. The general make up is typical of the sort of stuff against which Fields has to contend but he produces two especially tickling scenes. The age-old struggle of the male against the female for the bathroom mirror is most laughably...