Word: fatuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Latin. He is often regarded as a second-rate product, a man who was just not good enough to get an A.B. Anyone who feels even the slightest respect for the work done at this College in such subjects as organic chemistry or geology, cannot but wonder at the fatuous regulation which, grants a B.S. award to the graduate of four years of English Literature courses, and insists on the A.B. for a man who has spent his college career in Mallinckrodt or Agassiz, but who has passed Latin Cp. 4 on his College Board Examinations...
...pursues a young lady (Ginger Rogers) who is seeking divorce from an absurd geologist. There appear the impediments customary in musicomedy romance. Astaire is mistaken for a professional corespondent whom the young lady's guardians (Alice Brady and Edward Everett Horton) have ordered from an agency. A fatuous waiter makes ridiculous monologs. At odd moments a comely chorus dances, sings and wears elaborate costumes. Xone of this inter feres with the elegant genuflections or swift bright patter of Fred Astaire who, next to Bill Robinson the most nimble-footed hoofer on the U. S. stage, is rapidly developing into...
...allotted to one young man. It makes tentative gestures at satirizing Radio, as when ''Uncle Pete" (Allen Jenkins) elaborately professes to detest children, and a Jewish soap manufacturer (Joseph Cawthorne ) lets his wife, niece and cousins run his programs. Twenty Million Sweet lie arts mostly concerns a fatuous singing waiter (Dick Powell) who becomes a celebrated crooner. Discovered singing "The Man on the Flying Trapeze'' by a brash, noisy scout (Pat O'Brien), the waiter fails dismally at his audition, later gets another chance when aided by a soap-hour singer (Ginger Rogers...
There were millions of us with sense enough to appreciate the superior qualities of Herbert Hoover; millions of us who hoped, for America's sake, that he would be returned to the White House. But I don't think any of us were fatuous enough to regard one school's vote of 4-to-1 in his favor as evidence of amazing popularity...
...TIME getting fatuous...