Word: humdrum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...title of this tale, the purple cover which surrounds its 384 pages, are good hints. In a style which appears to be the offspring of a union between A. S. M. Hutchinson and the King James Version of the Bible, Author Stern, in the first person, unfolds the humdrum history of a young writer, later turned advertising man, later turned merchant. His unimportant love affairs, his inconsequential pokings at life with a stick, fail to acquire emotional value or intensity by virtue of the magenta draperies which muffle the recital. Yet when Author Stern comes to realize that writing prose...
...judgment necessary for a critic. Yet that Senior, to whom the only distinguishing mark of vacation has been the absence of the morning CRIMSON (advt.) from under the door, fortunately requires only the barest modicum of acumen to realize that "Merry Merry" is far above and beyond the humdrum level of musical comedy average. In this day of striving for the "bigger and better," it is something of a relief to discover a producer content to concentrate on the "better" at the expense of the "bigger." "Merry Merry" is of the intimate, clubby musical comedy genre made popular...
...Professional. Last week a tournament began on the links of the Olympia Fields Club of Chicago. Excepting James Barnes, Willie MacFarlane and MacDonald Smith, every important U. S. professional was entered. Humdrum preliminary play began. Suddenly came an upset: Gene Sarazen dropped out, 8 up and 7 to go, before Jack Burke of Houston...
Just when everybody had about concluded that the untrammeled West had settled down to a humdrum existence, news comes from Nevada City, California, that the mail stage has been robbed. To be sure, the vehicle was an automobile, instead of the traditional coach and four horses, and the highwaymen leaped from the bushes instead of galloping up on bronchos, but it demonstrates that the tradition of personal initiative is still alive...
...then, you want to be amused stay away from the Hollis. If you want to be depressed and have a most excellent view of a humdrum, small town, existance go to see "Next Door...