Word: driveller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moses, mountain, chief and head of Past Tample, thank Pharaoh Hiachepsat for having drawn me out of the Nile and helped me to attain high dignities." This is the grand message, the revelation of the Hebrew lawgiver, Moses, according to one scholarly gentleman. According to another it is bunk drivel. The question, therefore, like the sword of Damocles, remains suspended...
...drivel-lines that biteless bark, and choose...
...will be no excuse for any U. S. newspaper to be without at least one redeeming feature. For a moderate consideration, any city editor can now have a model of sincere, constructive, idealistic thought and writing against which to contrast the "blowsy," "slipshod" language of the news columns, the "drivel" he lets "slide under his nose," the "transparent absurdities," the "trivialities and puerilities." To his vulgar, ignorant cub reporter, a city editor may now say: "Go thou and read our column by Mr. Mencken and be a better...
...longed to pummel the thick headed Shand. But she knew, she knew what every woman knows. Sentimental drivel? Nonsense. We expect to weep openly and copiously whenever we please. As one of her brothers puts it: "It's that damned charm that does...
...without sense? Is it written in blowsy slipshod English, full of cliches and vulgarities-English that would disgrace a manager of prizefighters or a county superintendent of schools? Then the fault belongs plainly not to some remote man but to a proximate man-to the man who lets such drivel slide under his nose...