Word: boredness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A high-powered car purred through the forest of Fuente de la Teja. Reclining in the tonneau were a stiff young fellow in military trimmings, and a cadaverous-faced, hook-nosed individual with all the bored air of a man of the world. King Alfonso was going to visit the...
1) Sometime the miners will get bored with their vacation.
Bankers, brokers, bookies, artisans, ladies of society, "a well-known rowing champion" and two members of Parliament last week joined a club which purposes to provide its members with instruction in flying-the London Aero Club. Some because they were bored, some because they were eager, the rowing champion because...
For long, dreary days the Reichstag had listened, sometimes restlessly, to a deadly debate on taxation. The Deputies, bored to the verge of unconsciousness, became alert on the instant when Socialist Herr Braun accused Communist Herr Rosenberg of praising Caesar Augustus. What had Caesar to do with German taxation? Everybody...
Kiss Me Again. Ernst Lubitsch is our other great director, imported but no less great. Griffith is the master of mass and melodrama, loud laughter and tumbling tears. Lubitsch is the genius of the nimbler gaieties-the subtle graces of light comedy. He has taken a thin old story of...