Word: humdrum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bridges books: Poetical Works; Demetcr, a Mask; Humdrum and Harum-Scarum, A Lecture on Free Verse...
...great but humdrum is the National Education Association. To its meetings come no representatives of foreign countries. And, except when a U. S. President addresses the N. E. A., its activities are ignored by the laity, unnoticed by most newspapers...
...event of the year that lifts many a student out of the humdrum of campus existence and gives him a taste of campus life he reads about in magazines, yet never sees in real life; takes him from an uneventful existence to College Life...
...Hudson bridge. He was inspired. "The new bridge," said he to a friendly newsman, "is the most gorgeously beautiful sight that can be found in New York. ... If the builders . . . paint the bridge black it will be scarcely visible. ... It will lose all its gleaming beauty. It will be humdrum and ugly. Now, when the sun sets, the red bridge is glorified into burning scarlet. When the storm clouds gather, the red gleams through the threatening darkness in unequalled splendor. Rising beyond the solid green of Central Park, the gorgeousness of the rich red hue is heightened." Artist Barclay, apostle...
...stray animals' cemetery, with a particularly fine brick for canary David's headstone; her turning agnostic because no God smote her for saying "golly-golly-golly" all through church; her discovery of The Count of Monte Cristo, and amazement, on being called to supper, that all her humdrum world was going on just as usual...