Word: boredoms
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...Hurd merely presents an analysis of Oxford's personal methods, based upon the personality of the tutor, as delineated in contrast to the stamping mold of American college machinery. He attacks the Oxford system for the boredom and indifference which thirty years of monotonous repetition forces upon even the best of tutors...
...theme of the play revolves around the unpleasant complications which may arise from introducing a street-walker into the family circle--and it is difficult to conceive how such spicy material can produce such consummate boredom. This, however, it most successfully achieves...
There is a quaint belief, conceived in boredom and born out of terrific sophistication, that all Freshman classes are, as a group, alike. The numerals, the names, and the faces change, but the composite similarity is timeless. Fortunately for the world in general and for Harvard College in particular this epigrammatic obituary of the still-born hopes and illusions of youth is quite incorrect. It is assuredly a neat phrase and accompanied by a certain shrug of the shoulders and flick of the ash it assumes the proportions of a social gesture. But it is untrue--gloriously untrue...
...classmates call him "Butch." He owns a "secondhand navy pea-jacket, evidently purchased with due regard for Coolidge economy." He has a "perfect schoolgirl complexion," plus an "air of perfect boredom." He keeps a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in which his name is mentioned. He receives, from schoolgirls throughout the U. S., admiring letters. So alleged the Amherst Junior Year Book of John Coolidge. The President's son, Amherst College Junior, is himself a member of the Junior Year Book editorial board...
...impecunious, consumptive scientist needs $900 to perfect his tuberculosis remedy. His good wife earns just that sum by vending her virtue to the villain. Her subsequent endless remorse is no more awful than the boredom of the audience. The play is embellished by glimpses into dens of vice along Riverside Drive...