Word: nondescript
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moral lesson. Mr. Hearst's New York Daily Mirror, which is only excelled in vulgarity by Mr. Macfadden's Daily Graphic, assumed the lofty mission. Beneath the two-inch headline, ''INDICTED!" the Daily Mirror published a full page photograph of Daughter Snyder supported by a nondescript woman in a fur coat and a man looking more like a pious bootlegger than an undertaker. Daughter Snyder's head was bent-her face completely hidden by her hat and her hand. The caption said: "The Daily Mirror will not print a photograph showing the face...
...diagrammatic sketch of the joints of the human body interpreted in terms of the joints of machinery lay puritanically before the reader on one page. On an-other the seldom depicted organs of the male and female were similarly diagramed and explained. Drawings with nondescript. people in them much like those used in Popular Mechanics and the Radio Digest were employed to give "human interest" to the explanation of what are, after all, "mechanical" if "living" organisms...
...peregrinations of the theatrical tourists are accomplished by means of three Ford cars and two nondescript run-abouts. Generally these conveyances are in an advanced state of disrepair...
Poem A boy sat on the Yachtsmen's Wharf at Atlantic City last Thursday, complacently fishing. Beside him dozed his necessary adjunct, a tawny, nondescript dog. The John Greenleaf Whittier poem was complete; bare feet, red hair, freckles; attired in a cotton shirt and overalls. Occasionally a promising dip of his long fishpole caused his eyes to sparkle momentarily; occasionally an intrepid fly was rewarded with an energetic slap. . . . Occasionallv, too, he shot a glance of stern disapproval across the wharf, where the Courtney children-Martha, four, and Jane, six-romped carelessly. Suddenly, simultaneous shrieks rent the air, mingling...
...audiences abroad have deteriorated in quality. The cultured classes, which formed the backbone of the pre-War musical public, have but little money at present for concerts or opera. The rather nondescript audiences of today seem to lack the discrimination which, combined with warm enthusiasm for really fine things, formerly lent such an ideal atmosphere to musical performances abroad. "It is sad-immeasurably...