Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Summer Wife. Wanted: pleasant, decorous, middle-aged matron to manage my six-room apartment in Manhattan and comfort me June 15 to Sept. 30, while my wife is away on her needless summer vacation. Children no objections. Businessman (address deleted...
...chance meeting of a student and the Devil in a suburban trolley, the author wanders off in a pother of pseudo-Socratic dialectic, savoring of Shaw's "Man and Superman", and getting nowhere at all. And the fatal mark of the amateur is too often evident--that of needless circumlocution...
...vitaphone, it is undoubtedly an achievement, and sets a high-water mark in sound-photography which will endure for a brief space at least. Sound and color effects alike leave nothing to be desired. Although a masquerade Ball which is introduced toward the end of the performance seems a needless display of fire-works, as a whole the elaborate scenes are admirably controlled throughout by the able hand of the director, Ludwig Berger. Incidentally, he also shows considerable skill in avoiding the artificial introduction of supposedly spontaneous quartets, a practice which mars so many efforts of the talking screen...
...Needless to recall 5,000,000 women were enfranchised (TIME, Aug. 13, 1928) in time for the last British General Election (TIME, June 10), but they bit the hand of the party that gave them the vote-Conservatives helped measurably to put in power Laborite James Ramsay MacDonald...
Designer Agha ruled that thenceforth headlines and picture captions would be devoid of capital letters. The capital letter was obviously an obsolete and needless convention; its omission was indubitably swank, European, thoroughly in keeping with the foreign spirit of the magazine. For five issues, therefore, Vanity Fair appeared with such captions as the following: eva le gallienne . . . the director of the civic repertory plays Juliet in her own production, with Jacob benami as romeo...