Word: boredoms
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...playwriting, direction and acting would do little credit to the sophomore class of any second-rank high school. . . . Actors and others connected with the art of the drama most certainly are entitled to their share of the assistance the Government is extending to the jobless, but taxation plus boredom for the theatre-going citizens savors of double-jeopardy...
...high time that these inaccessible assistants realize that their jobs are to assist. What though they be bored with oft-repeated questions and that ignorance of a narrow field which naturally arises from an intellect whose interests are necessarily broader? They are paid to overcome this distasteful boredom. Such irritations are the crosses which men who adopt this troublesome profession have to bear. An assistant is not earning his salary unless he goes out of his way to make himself as accessible to the students as he possibly can, even to the extent of sacrificing part of his social life...
More than two years after the overthrow of Tyrant Gerardo Machado, Cuba last week went to the polls in boredom, suspicion and disgust, to elect a President, a Congress, provincial Governors and mayors. Cuba had had no election at all for eight years, no election even moderately honest for 20. Most politicos, who preferred their own voices to the people's votes, had made certain that last week's election would prove as little as possible. It was the quietest election in Cuban history, for which U. S. bigwigs in Havana gave much credit to able...
...Sassard, "gave me further reason to admire and respect this Sovereign, who is so different from those who surround him and from his own people, and who is so superior to them. ... In his motionless face only his eyes seem alive-brilliant, elongated, extremely expressive eyes. They bespeak boredom as well as polite indifference, cold irony, or even anger. The courtiers know these different expressions well and retire suddenly when the monarch's glance becomes indifferent, then hard. On the other hand, especially when he is dealing with Europeans, his eyes know how to be soft, caressing, affable...
...lies entirely outside of the mechanism of the Stock Exchange. It is to be found in the banking situation, which is characterized by unprecedentedly low money rates and by the greatest surplus reserves ever recorded. . . . Given a sufficient degree of confidence, or perhaps of desperation, or even of reckless boredom over the prolonged idleness of money, a situation could develop which would threaten the gravest consequences through an upward flight of security prices...