Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Sherlock Holmes, he used narcotics, to brighten up the dull months of idleness. But he took the cure regularly, never allowed morphine to disturb his meticulous planning. Nevertheless, drugs were his undoing. To get his supplies, in a tight wartime dope market, he forged the signature of a Chicago physician. That was careless. He was arrested (as Major Maclay), sent to a Federal Narcotics Hospital at Lexington, Ky. For months nobody suspected that he was Mr. X, the fabulous forger. After painful checking, the FBI identified...
...dull stockmarket Eastern Air Lines sparkled with starry brightness, climbed from $42 a share...
Christ Church students, to whom Charles Lutwidge Dodgson lectured for 40 years, knew him only as a gawky, dull professor who could not utter the letter "p" and who left the room if he overheard a single indecent or irreverent remark. But visitors to his rooms were bowled over by what they found. Rugs and coats were stuffed against cracks in the door (Dodgson had a horror of draughts). Instructions for lighting an amazingly complicated gas lamp were pasted to the door-though no one was ever allowed to light the lamp...
Since Moses. Although Britons are notoriously creatures of habit who love to eat the food to which they are accustomed, however dull it may be, Lord Woolton was not destined to attain the unpopularity of Leon Henderson or Jimmy Byrnes. He had not lived at University Settlement, Liverpool, without learning how to appeal to the ordinary Englishman. He taught them to do without things they had eaten all their lives-and not mind...
...spring, when the windows are open, "you can hear pianos being played and people practicing singing." There are street-corner flower stands, and women selling lavender. In this old city much that seems dull to newcomers, or hopelessly outdated to reformers, turns out to be a by-product of contentment, accidentally wise...