Word: nondescription
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magician, a pretty, home-loving girl, a threadbare plot--that is the whole of "Eternally Yours". It all hinges about Loretta Young, whose change from historic thrillers to modern nondescript is much for the worse. In this lovodrama, she has to choose between a boring suitor and a crafty magician. The snave charlatan, David Niven, offers here excitement and some other things, too. With him, she is whiled through a hectic Hollywoodian adventure; they cruise around the world, sometimes doing parlor tricks, sometimes performing feats of magic. Back at home, though, the other suitor waits, offering her his stolid security...
Precise and tall among the nondescript brownstones off Manhattan's Gramercy Park stands the National Hospital for Speech Disorders, founded 23 years ago by an earnest laryngologist with the neat name of James Sonnett Greene. The hospital cannot pretend to serve all the 13,000,000 afflicted with speech disorders in the U. S., but it does its bit. In its time it has helped some 30,000, has guided a national move toward unfettered speech, once inaugurated a campaign which has pretty much driven stuttering comedians from the cinema. Its Ephphatha Club, named for the command ("be opened...
...band and by the majorette, Miss Rennie Smith of Revere, joined the parade, while scores of others watched as it went down the street. Miss Smith, scorning the chill November wind, appeared in a costume appropriate for the occasion, and lent grace and precision to the enthusiastic but somewhat nondescript band...
...Starlings also have a nondescript call of their own. "The greater part of it," says Ornithologist Aretas A. Saunders, "is sibilant, fricative [sounds of zh, sh, th], or harsh and rattling, but here and there the bird intersperses loud, clear, slurred whistles, most of them slurred downward. . . . The young, when gathering in their first flocks in June and committing depredations in cherry trees, make a loud grating or hissing noise...
...battlefields and the birthplaces of celebrities. But plain citizens who know their own towns know landmarks with less elevated associations: skyscrapers, banks, the saloon where the town boss held office, the hotel where politicians made their deals, the street corner where some brilliant newcomer was shot-the miscellaneous, nondescript, undistinguished scenes of local history which old-timers recognize and visitors pass without seeing...