Word: humdrum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Superbly photographed, "The Prisoner of Zenda" does not devote itself to love and intrigue alone; many scenes are salted with a humor that is as dashing as the theme. anyone with red blood in his veins can find a splendid opportunity for escape from the humdrum ways of a modern world by visiting Loew...
...charmed by the erudite French culture he found typical of many mulatto statesmen in Haiti, and it was fun for diminutive Mrs. Gordon to appear at a Haitian ball one night with dashing Dictator Trujillo of the nearby Dominican Republic, although often enough her partner was Haiti's humdrum, dusky President Vincent...
...screen or on the printed page, the trench scenes from Erich Maria Remarque's book brutally picture the universal bewilderment at the War's end. Author Remarque describes his soldiers' return to their humdrum homes as a tragic surprise they cannot comprehend. Director James Whale, who adds in the film the signing of the Armistice in Marshal Foch's railway car, visions their homecoming as both tragic and comic...
...could the liquidation be accomplished without impairing the Royal Family's immense goodwill dating from Queen Victoria? Could humdrum Mr. Baldwin keep steady and do his awful duty while narrow Downing Street echoed to such cries as "God save the King-from Bald- win! FLOG BALDWIN! FLOG HIM!! WE-WANT-EDWARD!!!" The last man in the world whom such cries could disconcert is Mr. Baldwin, and the last woman is Mrs. Baldwin...
...father got him a job as solicitor's clerk in one of London's grimiest, soundest law firms, but Ben never intended to be anything so humdrum to him as a lawyer. Byron, lately dead at Missolonghi, was his hero. While still a law clerk, he began what he intended to be a brilliant literary career by writing a satirical society novel. Famed Publisher Murray fought shy of it, and Ben was cut to the quick. Wanting to get rich very quickly, he took a flyer in South American mining shares. was soon over his ears in debt...