Word: ennui
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...will find another outlet. The steady growth of a more mature intelligence throughout the student bodies of the various schools of any intellectual and cultural importance will eventually accomplish all that the most hysterical. Viewer with Alarm could wish for, and with less fuss and attendant by-products of ennui...
...normal-sized persons.* In the ring, he grunts loudly and grimaces, dances lightly on his great feet, lunges quickly with his fists. Out of the ring he dresses in loose, bright-colored clothes, snorts and smiles down at the jabbering crowd which always follows him. Immune to fear, ennui, embarrassment or surprise, he was not offended when boxing commissions suspended his activities in 33 States, nor humiliated when he was forbidden to dine with other guests in Atlantic City's smart Ambassador Hotel while attired in a green polo jersey. With the exception of his U. S. manager, handsome...
...same boat as the Daughters of the American Revolution yesterday, when President Hoover refused both of them his calling card. The refusal of the President to address the D. A. R. Congress this year, interpreted by the Press as being significant of something a little more than mere social "ennui", brings out into sharp relief the ostrich-like perversity with which that organization has in the past supported every unenlightened policy that could possibly be miscalled Americanism. The naval policies which contributed to the failure of the 1927 Geneva Conference, Intervention in Central America, abhorrence of the World Court...
...somewhat naively visualized by the press and by visitors staggered by the physical splendor of the buildings. None but the most excitable, however, expected radical changes in the mental outlook of men who were to reside in the first two units. Nevertheless there has been a growth of ennui among those previously interested in the House Plan, and as the interest has waned, the sharpness of perception has dulled with it, so that probably the majority do not realize that the first two units are wielding influences, different in each case, on their inhabitants. The Houses are not dormitories after...
...return to the S. S. Van Dine ghoulish extravaganzas William Powell, while easily surpassing his understudy, Basil Rathbone, who appeared as Philo Vance in the "Bishop Murder Case", gives a distinctly inferior performance to his first appearance as the modernist detective. His suavity is the direct cause of objection: ennui sits so heavily upon him that it finally spreads to the spectator and the latter at last doesn't give a--(censored on Sundays) just who did make off with the entirely nasty stockbroker: he's done away with and that's the important point. Mr. Powell sits and sits...