Word: humdrums
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...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...
...indifference. A railroad wreck, gambling dens in full blast, interiors of choice Parisian restaurants, and sorrowful close-ups of Pola drenching her little girl with a shower of joyful tears at the end, make the picture very enjoyable for students leading suppressed lives and rebelling against the monotonous humdrum of Cambridge...
Chief of Police Michael E. Hughes of Chicago having announced that he had stamped out a great part of his city's crime (TIME, Jan. 30). Chicago has been peacefully humdrum in recent weeks, except for a few episodes, such...
Backstage they adored her?the younger singers, the chorus, the stage hands, the musicians in the orchestra, the ushers. She brought glamour to the humdrum of rehearsals. Her escapades were their bread-and-butter talk. She always seemed to do the opportune thing at the opportune time, came out on top. She was the only prima donna ever to have her own permanent dressing room. Two of the older singers had been bickering for one for weeks. Gatti was obdurate?and then Farrar came in, casually. No one would mind, would they, if she took that dirty, airless room...
...civilization. Perhaps the only important U. S. artist who never crossed the geographical boundary of his country, he advanced its esthetic frontiers by producing art, which, as well as being indigenous, is both comprehensive and comprehensible, original without being evasive, and humble without ever for a moment becoming humdrum...