Word: humdrum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Invisible Man (Universal). While other Hollywood producers confine themselves to the humdrum mishaps of prostitutes, millionaires and college footballers, Carl Laemmle Jr's Universal studio specializes darkly in supernatural pasquinades. The hero of The Invisible Man is as nasty a pumpkinhead as Frankenstein's monster or The Mummy. He is a young physician named Griffin, whose love for beauteous Flora Cranley (Gloria Stuart) is not sufficient to prevent him from discovering a drug which not only makes him invisible but turns him simultaneously into a homicidal lunatic...
...receive its present broad powers until 1904. Before then it looked after higher education alone, having been founded primarily to rehabilitate King's College (now Columbia University) which had been suspended during the Revolution. New York State's University sometimes forgets its humdrum job and dons academic garb. It did so last week to celebrate, a bit ahead of time, its 150th birthday. Meeting in Chancellors' Hall in Albany in their 69th convocation, the Regents elected Vice Chancellor James Byrne, Manhattan lawyer, to succeed the late Chancellor Chester Sanders ("Boss") Lord, longtime managing editor...
...vicious booting liquor . . . Before prohibition, beer was regarded as a comcomitant of a college career . . . Not one tenth of one per cent of the youth in college know what really good American beer tastes like . . . They will have to be educated . . . They have become fed up with humdrum existence without beer, and seem to require girls and hard liquor for diversion as they know no other way." This monograph on the necessity of education college youth speaks for itself equally well to all with or without a sense of humor...
...break an unending monotony. When he thinks of snow covered firs, lakes bound in dark green shimmering ice, among the low rolling hills, and a certain Louis Seize drawing room where a joyful terrier momentarily basks before a crackling hickory fire, he wonders dimly how he will endure humdrum Cambridge till June. At this point in his cogitation he wanders absently to the punch bowl, and helps himself to a bit more, with a generous spike...
Times have changed since high-spirited British subjects used to fire an occasional shot (which always missed) at young Queen Victoria and her young Prince Consort, Albert.* In the humdrum present, British subjects could scarcely believe sworn testimony in a London court last week that when H. R. H. Prince George went to work in the slummy East End citizens shook their fists and shouted: "Give us food! We don't want royal parasites...