Word: prosaic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prosaic matters such as bullets do still enter into consideration, just as forcefully as they impress themselves upon the soldier; still, the romance of war is redeemed by the paltry value of the arid soil the Spanish and Moroccans are fighting over. This is no bating-match between rival nationalities; it is rather a jousting time for lumbering knights-errant...
...Lord Parmoor, family name Cripps, is a white-haired septuagenarian with something of the good looks and all of the intelligence of the late Lord Morley. He was Attorney General to King Edward when Edward was Prince of Wales. He combines the ecstatic with the prosaic, interests himself in ecclesiastical questions and farming...
Being more of a songster than a poet, Mr. Davidson can leave his music behind only at the cost of being prosaic. We want him to sing...
When very drunk, let her calmly suggest living in illicit arrangement with a prosaic manufacturer who has been courting her with bovine persistence...
...surprising thing is that the nation has not already produced the writer of such a story. For unless the country, feeling stately prosaic has become convinced of the need of creating romantic atmosphere, it is hard to explain why this ancient game of "cops and robbers" is allowed to continue...