Word: insipid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is nothing to do about it but we can complain about the treatment given to the rest of the cast. John Boles can sing but we were offered the pipings of the cute one instead and even the worst of the history debunkers would shudder at the insipid portrayal of Abraham Lincoln. It is about time that petty actors stopped trying to take the part of the world's greatest...
Last week the Anatomical Record was preparing to publish a report from three Northwestern University anatomists showing that complaints of old people about insipid food are not necessarily crotchety imaginings. Professor Leslie Brainerd Arey and his co-workers counted 58,297 taste buds on a number of tongues, the owners of which ranged from infants to octogenarians. In general there was a marked decrease in the number of taste buds after middle age. In some very old tongues there were no buds...
...declared: "Modern music is going crazy. There is too much jazz, and jazz means dissonance. The standard of organ playing has greatly improved. The higher type music of such modern American composers as Horatio Parker, Arthur Foote and George W. Chadwick has superseded the old church music of comparatively insipid nature. But now we organists must deal with the influx of jazz...
...second part is Clara's nephew Tom, who pursues a respectable if undistinguished career through boarding school. Yale and the first stages of his family coal business. He cautiously gives the slip to the rather alarmingly attractive girl he should have married, and staidly weds his insipid opposite number. In Paris during the War he meets the right girl again, but does the decent thing and goes home to his wife and family. Later, when he is just on the point of breaking away for good, the resigned example and advice of his Aunt Clara send him back...
...houses of Webster are no more to be taken seriously than the telephones and camisoled ladies seen on the boards today. Archer has based his arguments merely on the mechanics of the dramatist. The case against him was complete when O'Casey read, with devasting humor, a bit of insipid dialogue from a current London social comedy...