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Word: boredness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Manhattan, two seasoned actresses undertook Hedda Gabler, in different theatres, simultaneously. Admirers of the two ladies, as well as Hedda's friends, sped back and forth, uptown and downtown, to compare and contrast the performances of Actresses Eva Le Galliénne and Blanche Yurka. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Two Heddas | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Finally the house is full. With ponderous trimmings the ceremonies start; the picture runs its petty pace; friends cheer friends; foes whisper obloquies. Then to the stage steps someone who is someone. He makes a speech. He summons to his side the stars of the particular pictures. They bow and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Openings | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

Subscriber Brown fell asleep in Council Bluffs, Iowa, while reading TIME. He has not stated what bored him.-ED.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Nineteenth Century. Victoria's cream-colored ponies trotted up the avenue with a command for Orlando to dine; Lady Palmerston and Mrs. Gladstone left cards, but bored Orlando withdrew to the woods with her lover. True, she solemnly married him and bore her first child?but such was the irresistible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Breeches to Crinolines | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

I am a radio operator and have been copying such broadcasts off and on for the past five years. It is tabloid stuff, selected with apparently no thought of the field it is to reach. A man at sea is merely bored to read the bald statement that "1 dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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