Word: humdrum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this most sensational trial of a humdrum Paris summer the principals were strangely at cross purposes. The prisoner, Miss Joan Warner, hoped to get by with her professionally nude "Slave Dance" and yearned to have it declared Art. The judges frankly considered the case trivial but expected something brilliant from the great French criminal lawyer, Maitre Henry Torres, who appeared for the defense. The prosecutor, scandalously sympathetic with Miss Warner, observed before the trial opened: "It would be a shame to send Joan to prison. She is young and besides she is very pretty. I am not going...
...coming of age, getting married, going to jail, or meeting death. Thomas R. Marshall resignedly turned jester. Calvin Coolidge, until reprieved by Warren Harding's death, grew colder and stiffer day after day. Charles Gates Dawes flared up in boisterous self-assertion, only to settle back into the humdrum of a perfunctory office. Charles Curtis steadily inflated with the love of pomp. Two years ago John Nance Garner joined their company. By last week, as he neared the close of his third session as President of the Senate, it was apparent that he, too, had undergone a Vice-Presidential...
...stepped forward with the Discovery of the Century, yet last week's meeting of the American Chemical Society in Manhattan was far from the usual, humdrum semi-annual convention. The Society's historians, led by Dr. Charles Albert Browne of the U. S. Bureau of Chemistry & Soils, had agreed that chemical industry in the New World got its start in 1635. This meeting, therefore, was to be a 300th anniversary jubilee. Current researches would be reported as always-for example, a symposium on brewing methods and a conducted tour of Jacob Ruppert's brewery...
...Deeply sympathized with Godfearing, humdrum Conservative Hamer Russell M. P. who fainted dead away last week when his sprightly son John received a five-year jail sentence for "attempted murder"; in abetting the attempted suicide of an expectant mother and abetting on two other occasions illegal operations. Said Expectant-Mother Carol Leadbeater: "I still love John and want to marry him. He did not throw me into the River Trent! No such thing...
...laboratory at Norway's Oslo University one day last week there was no humdrum of routine work. Instead the atmosphere was charged with excitement and apprehension. Surrounded by colleagues who stood ready to man pulmotors and apply stimulants if something went wrong, Professor Klaus Hansen (Toxicology & Pharmacology) gulped down a scientific cocktail which cost $25 and just filled two teaspoons. Reason for the spinal shivers was not the cost of the drink but the fact that it was 98% pure "heavy water...