Word: driveller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: . . . The letter printed in TIME, Feb. 28, under the caption "Ohio's Coal Bin" is no more than oafish drivel. Subscriber* Zweiger's confessed familiarity with the routine of sleeping off a debauch over Sunday doubtless explains why he has never met any of West Virginia's representative citizenship. His amazing inaccuracy is exemplified in his inference that the Ohio River was named for our excellent neighbor state to the north and west. The reverse is the case by nearly 200 years, bat what's 260 years to Mr. Zweiger...
...play, but has he? Junkman Ernest John (corpulent Sydney Greenstreet) has informal chats with God; radiates sunshine; feels led to rob a bank to help an aged invalid lady; with approval of the author does so. Old Sal (Emma Dunn) after rampaging all she can to offset the drivel, climaxes with a nerve-wrecking unexpected shriek?as Ernest John, in a large chair, slowly dies...
...Clark, 1935 Burlingame Ave., Detroit, Mich, upon its expiration this month. Although I am nominally at least a Republican, your waste of two or three pages in each issue discussing the favorite colors of Mrs. Coolidge, President Coolidge's colds and indisposition, and such drivel is sickening. Also many of your brilliant ( ?) descriptions of world personages, governmental actions, scientific observations, and the like are evidently written by somebodies or nobodies who are anxious to get in the spotlight by using belittling descriptions, large and unfamiliar words, and other such silly devices. There are some good points in the magazine...
Although it is unfortunate that the younger generation of authors cannot write enough worthwhile plays to satisfy the demand, it is a compliment to the theatregoing populace that it refuses to accept drivel and receives instead the thought-stimulating and inspiring lines of Ibsen. In this case, turning to the past is a sure sign of progress...
...Mystic Shrine? Surely this does bean a few of the earmarks of irrelevant erudition. Each man to his own fancy makes a happy world. But one cannot help wishing occasionally that the best scholars would sometimes deliver unto the press columns something more edifying than their dynamic drivel...