Word: boredoms
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...boredom and browning off and endless practice in weapons, drill and maneuver that we have endured, something worth-while is rising in England. A Great Army is here too, terrible in power, destined to fame unequaled in all the splendid story of our country. On a day before long there is going forth from this island the finest body of troops our nation ever raised . . . soon the trumpets will be sounding the advance. Afterwards must follow the mournful rolling of the muffled drum...
Though admittedly on a small scale and primarily for escaping boredom, the idle club ladies do charity work in connection with the Red Cross and several Cambridge relief agencies. At present a good number of them are planning to take charity positions such as typists in relief headquarters, child-workers in local hospitals, and teaching sewing and cooking in the community centers in Cambridge and Boston...
Singing Guns. I settled down for the long, monotonous run to the target. Ten hours of boredom; five minutes of excitement-that's the life of bomber crews...
Toward lunch hour and quitting time, when the need is to combat fatigue, hunger and boredom, the programs call for such soothing numbers as When the Lights Go On Again, A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody, Artists' Life, I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles...
...York's Harlem most of her life. When she was a sober little girl of 13, she was given free piano lessons by a teacher in the Juilliard School. Her teacher got sick-the lessons stopped. She kept on studying the classics herself, but to relieve boredom, now & then sneaked in a few stray blue-notes and hot syncopations. This became instinctive to the point of a wonderful vice...