Word: fatuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME is becoming fatuous,* fat and pudgy in the intellect. Witness: its claim that Dean Hill is "crawling." If he's wrong, he's wrong. Grantland Rice can say whether. I hope he will. But to accuse Mr. Hill of anything but sincerity is all those things mentioned above (and below...
...Fatuous, a. 1. Silly; stupid; foolish; blandly inane;-often with a sense of complacency...
...firmly withholding it in herself, to the derisive portrait of an actress called "Glory in the Daytime," her objective skill never falters in making vivid ordinary conversations motivated only by busy curiosity and vapid malice. No one else has her ability to make casual human types seem abysmally fatuous. Just as good in their way are the three or four lighter pieces included in the book. Nothing could be funnier than "The little Hours," an account of Mrs. Parker's midnight rendezvous with La Rochefoucauld. The late Elinor Wylie, who sometimes wrote in a similar vein, was apt to betray...
...more clearly than it had ever before, it was hoped that the use of printed lecture notes might be adopted in at least a few courses this fall. Thus far it appears that in only one course has such action been newly taken. Perhaps it was presumptuous--or merely fatuous--to hope that the discussion aroused last May would have a more fortunate outcome than the oblivion which has been the fate of the many previous pleas on this subject. Daily Princetonian...