Word: boredness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In the French group was Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister, looking tired and bored, more shaggy than ever, his half-closed eyes often gazing at the ceiling. M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, restless, smiling, alert, was in startling contrast to Louis Loucheur, heavy, stolid, inscrutable. Everybody noted, regretted, the absence of jovial...
Sirs: My husband subscribed to TIME because he considered me uninformed. Although it is less expensive, he did not think me in need of Elbert Hubbard's Scrapbook. I could discuss Nietzsche and Freud as superficially as the rest of our friends. But when the conversation turned to political...
Last week a long fight in the courts, begun by Mr. Barnett and his onetime guardian, Elmer S. Bailey, was terminated by Judge John C. Knox of the U. S. District Court of New York. On the ground that Mr. Barnett was and is incompetent to handle his fortune, Judge...
Year in and year out John Fosdick's unbounded domesticity has consisted of smoking cigars over the evening newspaper while his good wife sits by, bored. Come a pair of Mr. Fosdick's onetime sweethearts to vamp him. For a while the sirens disrupt the family, giving Mr...
Wedding Bills (Raymond Griffith). "He is the worst best man I ever had," says the groom of Mr. Van Twidder. The trouble is that Mr. Van Twidder has been pressed into too many wedding ceremonies, is bored with everything. No former wedding was like this one, however, where he is...