Word: ennui
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...seems that the football fanatics have gone out of their way to supply their editor with a picturesque example to justify his prophetic ennui...
...offspring of the recent rich. Her claim to cosmic recognition at the time was moderate success as a soubrette in a second class London music hall. She is careless of Cockney accent but scrupulous of moral tone. Amid the exotic realities of Monte Carlo, her male acquisition develops desperate ennui and she departs in dis- consolate defiance...
...Shame, via the bathing-revel and flask-party route or seeing one of them won away from rouge, the Ritz and high-hattiness in general by kittens, tame canaries, rural atmosphere and the sight of a pair of baby-rompers. But The Love Piker temporarily swings the weight of ennui in the latter direction. Hope Warner (Anita Stewart) was a frightful snob. She broke the speed laws, owned a Pekinese, and when rescued by the stalwart Martin Van Huisch first from the hoosegow and then from a rafter stories up in the air, where she had wandered in search...
...reading a reserved book in the Library today, a really beautiful volume done on vellum-like paper, and probably worth well over five dollars. At the end of the assigned portion of the contents some weary soul had poured forth his ennui--not in song, but in some weavy chirographs which may have been Arabic or Greeg Shorthand. The same pen had engraved at the top of the page, "Mich, dich, sich, Teufel", and at the margin a sketch which bore some resemblance to the professor in the course for which the book was prescribed...
Whatever fond hopes may have been held for the conference must by this time have nearly gone a-glimmering. The sight of twentieth-century diplomats, so-called, straining at notes and swallowing armaments, provokes either laughter or ennui--certainly not admiration. Without doubt Europe is more ready to call some sort of international truce than it has been for centuries. Yet the truce is not forthcoming. The conference has been going on long enough to have accomplished something by now; and yet no one is happy or satisfied. Expect perhaps the diplomats themselves...