Word: drivelings
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...costs to a light drizzle. As almost all shows found it harder to get to Broadway, so the doubtful ones found it harder to linger there until the public could judge them. But it was not wholly a matter for lamentation; rare this season were those exhibits of unutterable drivel that had once turned up every week...
...secret documents from his desk and pass them to the Russian ambassador was irrelevant in 1950; Strachey was probably just as good a "security risk" (in the cops & robbers sense) as anybody else. The important question was whether a man who can write (and apparently still believes) such drivel about Soviet Russia has any business being Britain's War Minister at a time when all the West (including the capitalistic societies which Strachey so openly hates) is fighting for its life. To give Strachey his present job was not so much a "security risk" as it was evidence...
...huckster tactics ("Kills Colds in Hours!", "Safe Even for Children") now being used to peddle anti-histaminic "cold cures." Sales of the drugs in 1950 may reach $100 million, it is estimated-"a plum for those who want to pluck it... The possibilities for exploitation seem almost unlimited. Drivel such as some of the [advertising] pleas for over-the-counter anti-histaminics should not be thrust on the American public. There is a limit to what the public should be asked to swallow...
...American Mother is a perfectly wonderful woman, wrote Café Columnist Paul V. Coates in the Los Angeles Mirror, but most of the time she is also a "perfectly lousy cook." So why all this sentimental drivel about "Food Like Mother Used to Make?" Give him a nightclub table any time and some breast of guinea...
Breakfast-table education, every now and then, turns into breakfast-table poppycock and drivel. Recently, for instance, this newspaper printed a story about a student who wrote a C-plus hour examination in a Social Relations course in which he was not enrolled, had done no reading, and had been to no lectures. This accomplishment has brought on, along with the jokes, a lot of serious talk. But very little of this talk has come anywhere near the point brought out by the case...