Word: drivel
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Thomas H. Stephenson '37, president of the Debating Society, carried off the speaking honors as he gracefully glided through three minutes of pleasant drivel about the Old Howard, Landon-Roosevelt political backwash, and speaking from the monument at Radcliffe...
...origin and growth of mob violence and its development into the characterisically American form of the lynching. Not a pleasant experience, but one of such dramatic power and potential social importance that it cannot be missed. Accompanying this excellent picture is a stupid, slow-moving, puerile bit of Hollywood drivel which calls itself "Speed" and commands attention solely for its almost unopposed candidacy for this year's prize lemon...
...like stuffed things about, even wise owls. Thence all afternoon to snoop about Emerson and say many fine things to the secretary but she, very foxy, does not tell me how well my examinations I did. So I to drown my sorrow with "Desire" at the flickers: So much drivel...
...dislike to deprive this heavenly minded Boston lady of the pleasure she seems to take in contemplating my supposed depravity, and especially do I hesitate to delete even this tiny morsel of drivel from the gurgling pacifism of the Millis book; but, I never made the statement. I never even heard of it until the author of the Road to War used it to support his delusion that the World War was caused by bad businessmen and bankers, and still more blood-thirsty preachers...
First letter came to a Sorosis member last July. It said that her husband was "idiotic," that he talked "drivel." that he had "bulgy eyes." It also said that her singing, of which the Sorosis member was very proud, was nothing but "screeching." What else the members read as they passed the letter around, none of them cared to repeat. Some members studied the handwriting, glanced suspiciously at other members. Accusations were made, bitterly denied. Two more letters came to members, both in the same handwriting. Worst of it was that some things in them were Sorosis secrets. Old friends...