Word: humdrum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first sentence, Mr. Kemler sees Mencken as a "Rabelais, Swift, or Shaw--who has somehow abused his gifts." Mr. Kemler fails to make his case for this comparison. His book is a humdrum piece of writing, devoid of wit and the dramatic flair necessary for a biography...
...fireside adventurer, Fawcett Publications' True and Popular Publications' Argosy are tailor-made. Each month they whirl their male fans away from the humdrum of business, budgets and the family, to shiver with a ski patrol as "They Cheat Death in the Alps," sweat as a motorcycle daredevil shows "How to Ride Up a Wall," cheer for the Old Blue bullfighter in "Yale Man Versus Toro," and squeeze the trigger when "Grizzlies Spell Trouble." The biggest difference between the two: Argosy runs fiction, True aims at facts...