Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Composer Arthur Schwartz (The Little Show, Three's A Crowd) to demonstrate how good a revue can be when done right. Mr. Kaufman has first innings, sets his colleagues a stiff pace by presenting as a prelude a mad kaleidoscope of musicomedy cliches. There is an insanely pointless blackout, a senseless, sugary melody sung by ingenue and juvenile, a ludicrous torch song. A gesticulating chorus stamps out shouting...
...this latter group the section meetings, degenerating as they so often do into answering of pointless questions and argument over unimportant details, and the time consumed in going to and from them, are a waste of time. Time thus wasted could be spent to further collateral reading or in vagabonding recommended lectures...
...willingness to negotiate, the decision now rests solely with the Princeton board of athletic control. Owing to Dr. Kennedy's absence on a speaking tour through the middle West, no action of an official nature can be expected until early February; therefore, further agitation from undergraduates is unnecessary and pointless. However, the ground has been prepared for resumption, the evidence has been amassed to show that students at both universities are in favor of resumption, and the way is clear. We wait the return of Dr. Kennedy...
...believed that nothing good could ever come of Princeton football, and that a dead tiger was a good tiger. Naturally, that view has passed, just as the dynasty of college students in whom rivalry surpassed reason has passed. I now find my little verse nearly as amusing and as pointless as the well-known break between the colleges. And that, you must admit, is very amusing and very, very pointless. Sincerely...
Queen High (Paramount). Although this was a successful Broadway musical show four years ago even such talented entertainers as Charles Ruggles and Frank Morgan can hardly make a fair program picture out of it in its present form. The trouble is that the plot has been padded with pointless routine fooling and the old songs replaced with poorer though newer ones, badly sung. It still, however, contains that fine scene in which two partners in a tottering garter business draw a poker hand to decide which shall serve as the other's butler for a year...