Word: prosaic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just at this ebb period in industry, the subject of poverty is especially pertinent, but a man who expects to loll leisurely in the library glancing at pictures of idiots, imbeciles, morons and thyroid sufferers will get a jolt in a very short time. Even, poverty can be prosaic, and the administration of a wel- fare society when presented with a sober lack of expression and in intricately balanced sentences does not encourage strict attention
...Woman's Exchange for 16 years to do it," said she. "I am sure she cannot be a spy, Marjorie was so carefully raised. She was never allowed to play on the city streets." ¶In peace or in war all nations employ spies-more often to discover prosaic matters of policy than to hunt out exciting military secrets. The U. S. State Department has a secret fund which never appears in the budget and for which no accounting is made. With it the Government pays for its spies at secret work the world over. Because all nations...
...between Mrs. Insull and the spectacular Mme Zahra Couyoumdjoglou, wife of a Bagdad date merchant who has been a bosom friend of Samuel Insull since his arrival in Athens. Mrs. Insull had wanted her husband to surrender and take his chances in the U. S. courts. That seemed too prosaic for Mme Couyoumdjoglou who arranged the Odyssey of the Maiotis...
...select, employ and consult with special counsel concerning such of these matters as may be considered to furnish grounds for a claim or claims in favor of the bank and to commission such counsel fully to investigate them." His stockholders thrilled to every syllable. Then in the same prosaic way Mr. Aldrich informed them that Elihu Root Jr., 52-year-old lawyer son of the sole surviving "Elder Statesman" of the U. S., had been retained to study-and was actively studying-whether Chase had legal ground to do something about the matter. Mr. Aldrich did not mention Mr. Wiggin...
Modern police have outgrown most of Lepine's clever mechanical innovations for the effective maintenance of law and order. His fleet bicycle janissaries have been supplanted by the radio car, and his glittering troopers by the prosaic riot squad and tear gas. His technique of piercing with swords the tires of hit and run drivers is, perhaps, no longer practical. But the admirable adroitness which characterized his administration suaviter in modo and fortiter in re, will never become out of date. It is a virtue which the modern constabulary might cultivate with profit...