Word: drivel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heard the German short wave boasting of the city's destruction. Drivel...
...pacifist prior to World War I, a paid propagandist for the Empire during it, and the author of the "Victory Ball" which painted the uselessness of it all for the post-war world, Noyes has previously written rhymed rhetoric during his pacific periods and rhymed drivel in his belligerent moods. In World War II the intellectual chameleon has again changed color--the only difference is that this time the drivel doesn't rhyme...
...time of Baker's death, O'Neill said of his former professor that he taught his students "to write plays of life as one saw and felt it, instead of concocting the conventional theatrical drivel of the time." "G.P." (as his students called him) taught at Harvard from 1888 until the offer of heading the new Department of Drama at Yale attracted him to New Haven...
...deploring "taking a year out of a boy's life" as one parent complained, patriotically to serve his country, is plain drivel. If it takes out only a year of five years everyone will be extremely lucky...