Word: boredness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even when this suit is ended, the affair of the oil scandals will not be over. There will be another suit against Harry F. Sinclair; and, after that, the final disposition of the naval oil reserves may be settled. This is only the second act. The country must not be...
The editorials are quite all right, but somehow one feels that a couple of other might have done just as well. And it was a disappointment to find under the very nice "Ibis Inklings" heading, the old,--oh, very old one--about the human race being the funniest. That is...
Business men are bored with the election campaign. They wish the windy formalities were through with and generally concede Mr. Coolidge's reelection.
If I knew the town of New York as well as Konrad Bercovici does, I should be sure never to be bored of an evening. In this latest book of his, he tries to explain the foreign quarters, and does it admirably; but the joy of discovery can never be...
THE TATTOOED COUNTESS-Carl Van Vechten-Knopf ($2.00). Fleshy and fleshly, but not without wisdom, is the Countess Nattatorrini after 20 years of middle-aged self-indulgence. Sneaking a cigarette in the women's toilet-room of an Iowa-bound Pullman car (anno 1897), she reflects upon her frothy...