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...letter to a Mrs. Samuel Bens of Manhattan, Senator Borah said: ". . . It is clear that both political parties propose to avoid anything in the way of a commitment to the upholding and maintaining of the Constitution of the United States, except perhaps an insipid, meaningless generality to the effect that they believe in law and order. They might just as well say they believe in the Ten Commandments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: It's an Issue? | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...comes your silly, insipid FASHIONS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 21, 1927 | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...sculler on the Charles defies an English river, fit for nothing but the languid progress of punts, to show such interest and variety within a few short miles. He has no patience with those who would reduce the banks of the stream to the insipid beauty of a city park. It is a dirty stream, to alien eyes an unattractive stream, but it is peculiarly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARE NOSTRUM | 6/2/1927 | See Source »

...deserted his post before armed rebels. Last week Damascus courts martial eyed the facts that M. Doty's attitude was defiant, that his offense was so grave that its penalty is death, that desertions were becoming all too frequent in the Legion, that "home-sickness" is an insipid plea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Soldier | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

When Basil Dean suggested that the theatre in England was in a less vigorous position than the American he had probably seen "The Young Person in Pink", For Gertrude Jennings' play, now in its first week at the Copley, is certainly insipid, if not devitalizingly vapid. Three acts of gentle farce, it rests its right to existence on a pink dress, a skit in the best Hyde Park cockney, and--at least in America--on Alan Mowbray's smile. To say, "The smile's the play," is not to vaporize. It is the truth. And all the more surprising...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMNESIA AND BROMIDES WITH PERSON IN PINK | 4/7/1926 | See Source »

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