Word: ennui
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...Paramount), Cecil Blount DeMille addresses himself to two obsolescent problems: 1) the gangster, 2) the younger generation. A director who combines the talents of a burlesque impresario and a soap-box revivalist, he makes the result a noisy and preposterous melange, calculated to arouse squeals of excitement or of ennui, according to the audience's mental...
...travels were of course by "palace car" (early Pullman). Julia's plaints of their continual traveling, her vehement assertions that Chicago is her home, "worth all London Paris & New York put together," ring a little false, her boredom is a little showy; but she had another cause for ennui: ill health. Undergoing the rigors of a Manhattan dress-fitting one day she suddenly keeled over. Afterwards she admitted to her diary: "I always wanted to faint once, just to know how it felt; & it is very nasty; however heroines always faint, but authors never say it is because they...
...same unfortunate lik. Occasional compositions in French, and an attempt briefly to survey the masterpieces of that tongue give it more appearance of coherence and raison d'etre than its unhappy companion, but the attitude of all concerned is one of absolute indifference and utter ennui...
...words finally arriving in a heaving rhythm which leaves the Vagabond with faint shudders. The class closes, and he wanders forth, counting the brown boards in the hall. He enters the local cinema, where refractory shapes sway in a concatenation of primordial emotions which is the very essence of ennui. Lights go by; imbeciles speak. The streets are black, and suddenly he is in the four-poster once more. The light goes...
Sued for Divorce. Paul Robeson, 34, Negro baritone, actor and athlete; by Eslanda Goode Robeson; in Manhattan. Reason: "ennui." Grounds: infidelity. Actor Robeson admitted he hoped to marry an English society woman, denied it was Negrophile Lady Nancy Cunard...