Word: fatuousness
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...Morgenthau's amiable offer to stabilize the dollar if other nations lead the way shows once again the fatuous aloofness of the United States. The Secretary of the Treasury compared the position of this country to that of an innocent bystander who has been injured in a fight he did not start. Such self-righteousness hardly condones the failure to stop the injury from becoming a permanent paralysis. How much the United States was bruised in the economic skirmish, even Mr. Morgenthau does not venture to say, but since President Roosevelt's refusal to cooperate wrecked the World Monetary...
...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...
...TIME getting fatuous...