Word: insipid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bucharest the news from Athens warmed the cockles of many a Rumanian heart. One of the sons-in-law of dynamic Dowager Queen Marie is insipid Georgios II, deposed King of the Hellenes. Doubtless he would resume his rule if by any remote chance Greece should go Royalist...
...fame, is currently contrasted with Clara Bow. Clara stood for sex; Janet for sentiment. The Bow-sprite lingers at the great U. S. soda-fountain of youth, along with 'Varsity drags, high school fraternities, sheikism, shebaism, girls who say "If you don't think so, you're ca-RAzy," insipid youths who say "And I don't mean perhaps." More truly, with greater ease than any other cinemactress, the Bow-sprite typifies the slangy, vital grisette who frolics in and out of adolescence, does her marrying, gets the embonpoint...
...TIME-Oh, Tempus-you better fugit before the Commander sees this-you know he has a few more years to his credit than this meaningless, insipid drawing gives him. . . . Look up a P. & A. photo and see if I'm just in my criticism...
...detective in the world" (Clive Brook) retires because criminals are so stupid. He will show them how; he commits "the perfect crime," a murder without a single clew. But finally, he is forced to confess in order to save the life of an innocent man. It is a thoroughly insipid film. To critical audiences, the crime was by no means perfect. The acting of Clive Brook and Irene Rich was exasperating. The "talkie" parts were atrocious, partly faked...
Johnny Boivin, the champion "violon-neux" of the province, bent to his old fiddle and played his songs. They were none of them insipid tunes or silly ones? he played the songs which women sing for spinning, the slow songs sung in the fields by men working, songs for stars and ploughshares...