Word: boredness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"I could not read the stuff. It did not interest me. It bored me beyond expression. . . .
He proceeded for an hour and a quarter, but his system was still not fully relieved of bile. In a final orgasm of accusation he gave utterance to his long-festering abomination of the press gallery, which has repeatedly declared itself bored by his bombast. "Poor little purse-proud puppets...
"There are naive libertarians who comfort and delude themselves with the theory that if only everything were printable, and if, everything could be photographed, we should arrive at a condition where nothing would shock the moralist and nothing would excite anybody. . . . The purging power of frankness does not fit these...
2) Bored, because, although the ceremonials of each match average ten minutes, the average, wrestling time is about 80 seconds; 3) Astonished at the mad leaps and dartings of the gyoji (umpire) who controls the bout by the movements of his gumbai (fan).
So much for lynch-floggings. Last week Robert R. Moton, head of Tuskegee Institute, published a report on lynch-killings. In 1925 there were 16 lynchings. In 1926 there were 29 lynchings. This is exclusive of a lynching which took place in Florida on Dec. 27. Some men with acetylene...