Word: fillers
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...Hole-Filler...
...whether matter or style is more vile. Artistically the word "vices" is wishful and unproven; Mr. Hillyer's couplets have not made tangible that confusion is a vice and what he actually means is: "Their only consistency is inconsistency." The word "except" is grammatically unsupported, and "consistently" is a filler elbowishly attempting to link a couplet with one preceding. In the next group of sentences, which I can compesitely number (5), the satirist temporarily abandons satire for a hurried description of municipal squalor. The passage is undigested and out of control. The professional coupleteer such as Gay or Churchill does...
...Borrow or Steal (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Frank Morgan, as a "steerer" of European tourists, poses as proprietor of a chateau in order to provide for his visiting daughter, Florence Rice. The dialog is wittier and the characters better rounded than usual in this type of program-filler...
...Void Filler...
Kirkland would appear to be rapidly acquiring an athletic reputation, for this year it points to keeping its football championship, and yesterday it won the House Track Meet. Though the Deacons captured only one of the eight events, they provided enough filler to come out on top in the final scoring: Kirkland 29 1/2, Leverett 27, Lowell 25, Eliot 23 1/2, Adams 10, Winthrop 4, Dunster...