Word: insipid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...OFFSPRING NOT AS TIMEWORTHY AS FATHER TIME STOP ANNOUNCER SPOKE TOO FAST FOR ENGLISH AUDIENCE STOP INCIDENTAL MUSIC SUBTLY APPROPRIATE EACH ITEM STOP ROOSEVELT LAUDED HERE SHARPLY REPROVING THOSE WHO HAVE APPLAUDED LYNCHING STOP IMPLIED CRITICISM OF ROLPH APPRECIATED AND APPROVED STOP MARCH OF TIME CERTAINLY GREAT IMPROVEMENT ON INSIPID COLOURLESS NEWS BULLETINS GIVEN BY BBC WHO THOUGH OFFICIALLY UNOFFICIAL ARE UNOFFICIALLY OFFICIAL THUS BARRING THEMSELVES INDEPENDENT CRITICISM AND COMMENT...
...Little Women" R. K. O. Keith's. Jean Parker has a hot potato in her mouth. Joan Bennet is insipid. Frances Dee and Katherine Hepburn are adequate. However, the best sentimental film this year or any other year...
When Frank is proposing to his charming protege, bullets fly through the windows. Calmly he ships Joan to Miami so that he may dispose of his enemies without endangering her life. An exclusive hotel harbors Joan until she meets an insipid crooner who confesses he is a coward. If a splinter pierces the delicate epithelium on his finger, or if the sun darkens his pure white skin, he has conniptions. Emasculated as he appears on the surface, he faces death with remarkable nonchalance; he is there in the pinch. Maybe this characterization conveys something mystical and beautiful...
...street as Chancellor Hitler drove through cheering Fascist crowds. Scowling Brown Shirts, rifle at shoulder, guarded the entrance of the refurbished Festspielhaus. It was Nazi Day at Bayreuth. Despite Hitler's prohibition of demonstrations "not pertaining to Wagner's immortal music," Karl Elmendorff's flat, insipid conducting of Die Meistersinger could not conceal the fact that Nazi Germany was again parading its national resurgence. Most foreign Wagnerites, regarding the Festival as an act of homage, remained away...
...young men that they were going to make the most of the two best ingenue parts in the Savoy Operas. Gilbert, in a particularly happy mood, made them two pert, attractive little baggages with minds of their own. Tessa and Gianetta steer a refreshing course, avoiding the Victorian doldrums (insipid Mabel, elfish Yum-Yum) and the Gilbertian caricatures (whining Ruth, tasteless Katisha). "When a Merry Maiden Marries" comes off with admirable airiness and grace, and so does the romping fantasy, "'Tis a glorious thing, I ween, to be a Regular Royal Queen." The right note of plaintiveness without nagging...