Word: boredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Delegates proceeded to examine problems from the fifth column to foreign trade, heard themselves scolded for cynicism and "disgusted detachment" by Speakers Neilson, MacLeish, et al., skirmished with a few members of the American Student Union and American Youth Congress who had gone to bore from within. By week's end the delegates had succeeded in squelching these noisy spokesmen, went off to their colleges steamed up to start forums on world problems...
There are parts that drag, but not too many, considering the fact that all musical revues are fated to bore some people some of the time. In these times of stress, too, Ed Wynn usually wanders on the stage of his friend, Mr. Shubert, and saves the act with an ice-cream oil slicker or his eyebrows. Eleanor Roosevelt is sure to like...
Britain's Navy proudly calls itself the silent service, but last week First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander let slip a significant phrase: "The strain upon our destroyer fleet has been very great." Silent facts bore out this admission. Many destroyers have been at sea an average of over 25 days a month. One cruised 111 days with only 19 days in port. Another traveled 52,248 miles - more than twice the earth's circumference - in nine months...
...disciple and colleague, Albert Galloway Keller, now a Yale patriarch himself. Sumner left Keller 52 huge drawers and boxes crammed with 156,000 pages of notes. Sumner had his own filing system, using red cards for references to be consulted immediately, green for his own comments. All bore his unique abbreviations, a swastika for "superstition," two dice for "luck...
...lend his famous profile to the wet concrete (by way of plaster cast), oblige pressmen by pretending to put his face in it. Heckled by unsatisfied photographers, he dipped his classic nose, a timid cheek, more of the profile when Sid Grauman, still unsatisfied, sneaked up from behind and bore down (see cut). Bedaubed & bewildered, Barrymore cursed, was still digging concrete from his ear when he left...