Word: ennui
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...Ennui...
...many an adult the Bard still remains a bore. With eight Shakespearean revivals slated for Broadway this season, with Hollywood equally active and on the eve of releasing Max Reinhardt's three-hour film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, last week the amount of potential ennui the U. S. amusement industry was about to sell its patrons was terrific. Just at that critical hour the Theatre Guild offered Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne in The Taming of the Shrew. Here, in good faith, was a pleasant comedy to bar a thousand harms and lengthen life...
...into speculative stocks on the open market is considered, there can hardly appear rcom for doubt about his guilt. Both Kruger's suicide and Stavinsky's mysterious death have prevented the law from making its claim on the great European embezzlers. Legal red-tape and the customary American ennui in dispensing justice should not be allowed to hinder a more satisfactory conclusion to matters on this side of the Atlantic...
There is a group of carefree young men in our midst for whom the consideration for one moment of a serious thought would be an ennui too great to be borne. For such, anything so hopelessly antediluvian as an ideal is excruciatingly funny. Well, gentlemen, it is not without the bounds of possibility for this tremendous joke to turn into a poetically just and ghastly ironic nightmare. If the country's future is to be guided by the harebrains which Friday's farce disclosed--God help the country. Sedgwick Mead...
...from national group to national group. Comely Radcliffe maidens, cleverly clad in white, which contrasted flatteringly with the dull winter garb of their visiting sisters, flitted constantly from contingent to contingent, often transporting billet dour or notes reading "Just to make use of the usher." So the League dispelled ennui...