Word: fatuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happens in a day. Ethel Vickery starts the day as usual, right, by waking her business-wearied husband Joe with her fatuous Swedish exercises on the floor, and endless personal hygiene in the only bathroom. Rob, their spoiled schoolboy son, lolls in bed turning a hangover into a case of overwork. Rosamond dreams, as far as her knowledge will permit, of violent love at the hands of Wesley, the chauffeur. Only Isabel, the youngest, is up & about, playing in the pools that have unaccountably appeared in the San Andreas canyon's dry streambed. Old Pryor, Ethel's father...
...chief faults of the Model League system remains uncorrected. Much of the value of the discussion is inevitably lost in the fatuous pantomining of Geneva formality. An understanding of the organization of the League of Nations is necessary, but it can be satisfactorily secured from a cursory study of texts; to utilize this machinery as a means for stimulating an interest in international problems merely defeats its own purpose and, by an unnatural ease in reaching preconveived decisions, imparts a false impression of the activities of the League. If students desire to discuss international affairs, it would be far better...
...eager merely to gather evidence in support of them. But the charge of the county authorities that they are Communists is patently ridiculous, and quite beside the point. Regardless of their political convictions, they have an obvious right to investigate industrial conditions in any part of the country. The fatuous finger-wagging of the Kentucky authorities proves nothing except that Kentucky is a near-neighbor of Tennessee...
...Peach O' Reno," the accompaning comedy, is both weak and fatuous. A supposed satire on the mecca of American married life, it combines some good humor with as bad slap-stick comedy as Hollywood is capable of producing. The stupidity of most of the jokes is inexcusable, but nevertheless the audience laughs...
...popular conception of operatic stars. One of the most pleasing phases of the entertainment is the manner in which the star renders the songs which are requisite for the creation of the musical atmosphere. Second in merit stands Francis Compton who depicted with vigor the role of the fatuous finance...