Word: driveling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both Spanish public and Moors have long since become used to such state ments from a long succession of Spanish Governments. The Moorish rebels showed their contempt for such drivel by cutting Spanish communications between Tetuan, capital of Spanish Morocco, and Tangier, international zone lying at the extreme northwest corner of Morocco and opposite the great rock of Gilbraltar. This was by far the most decisive victory for the rebels in this year's fighting* and a serious setback to the Spaniards...
Orange Blossoms, Drivel, Gladness...
...ethics of the proceeding seem a little hazy. One wonders whether Pollyanna's creator would be unqualifiedly "glad" at this calm appropriation of her brainchild. It is true, however, that there have been and still are voracious readers of this drivel. Over half a million copies of Pollyanna were sold, it was translated into five languages, including Japanese, and a Finnish edition is now under way. A prodigious mushroom crop of "Glad dubs" sprang up in its wake, and innumerable families were afflicted with "glad" little girls who, when a bee stung them, were glad it wasn...
With due respect to the two individuals whose letters you published last Thursday, I must tell you that their lunge at our good old drinking-song was absolutely the silliest drivel I have ever heard...
...Much drivel has been perpetrated about the movies as a means of education. Mostly, they are a hindrance. But it is equally true that no outstanding effort has been made to turn the public silver screen into an educational institution. The Yale University Press, which published the Chronicles of America, a compendious history of this country, has undertaken to translate this great opus into some 30 cinema plays. The first of these, Columbus, will be released on or about Columbus Day, Oct. 12. The play has no sugar-coating other than its own intrinsic flavor. Will it please the public...