Word: boredoms
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...Bosun. For all her understandable boredom in South Africa, Elizabeth has inherited from her parents the instinctive ability to, do the right thing. At a Girl Guide (Girl Scout) review in dark Basutoland, it was she who spotted a bus full of Guides kept well apart from the rest. Despite the anguished cries of officials, she promptly went over to talk to them. They were the Girl Guide troop from a leper colony. Next day everyone in South Africa knew what the Princess had done...
...Ping Pong Players," a light love story written by Saroyan to illustrate the lengths to which people are driven by boredom, will be the HDC's curtain raiser. Allegretti and Miss Frances Coombs, Radcliffe '48, who portray the two main characters in the play, will engage in a ping pong game all through the dialogue. The HDC announced on Tuesday that eight winners of the PBH ping pong tournament have been given tickets to see the play...
...much about the mail. But in one of the huts, jauntily labeled Ice Cap Inn, three girls of the American Red Cross battle the loneliness and-boredom which breeds cabin fever.They mend G.I. clothes, darn socks, organize skiing and fishing trips with dogged gaiety. They gallantly journey to the isolated outposts for dances. In a country where all native settlements are off limits, where at times even the radio is blotted out by the crackle of northern lights, these Red Cross girls come as close as any one could to spelling home...
Edwin Packer knew no cure for the disease: a man just had to break himself of it. He concluded: "Our industrial civilization has produced, in spite of progress and the emancipation promised by science, a sense of boredom and frustration in the common man. ... A restriction on gambling in any form may merely serve to direct the emotional drive into other and perhaps less socially acceptable channels...
...plot boils up a satisfactory climax and the audience starts fumbling for its galoshes when the picture goes through its first red light. More, and duller plot-and then it passes another stopping place, shipping boredom like a leaky boat. By the time the movie decides it has had enough, the audience is way ahead...