Word: prosaic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past. Men wonder how their own lives would have been effected if they had gone into business rather than medicine, or they ponder on what France would be today if Napoleon had won at Waterloo. There is a sentimental romance about the process that appeals to the most prosaic...
...interesting than the tale itself are the individual scenes which are handled with a finesse seldom seen in native productions. The opening sequence finds Albert singing to a group of tenement dwellers. There is an attention to detail and a depth of feeling which lends dramatic power to this prosaic gathering. At another time Albert is in his room, filling a shabby suitcase with little gifts for the girl he is to marry, but is interrupted by the arrival of the police. Here again is a trite situation, which becomes significant through deft and sympathetic handling. Nor is the movie...
...Prosaic inhabitants of the small Idaho towns of Bovill, Orofino, Troy, Elk River, Moscow, Genesee, Lewiston, Orchard, Juliaetta and Kendrick, last week were hunting for a big hole in the earth. More superstitious citizens put their heads together, whispered of miracles. On Christmas Eve they had seen a strang light yellow light rip earthwards through the sky of northern Idaho. Then they heard a deafening crash. The flash was seen as far as Spokane, Wash., over 100 mi. Mrs. Joseph Holland, who said she saw it on her way home from church, described the phenomenon for newsgatherers as "three glowing...
...Torrens still rode at anchor. Australia's navy tried again and yet again until Rear Admiral E. R. G. R. Evans judged that enough of the Commonwealth's money had been blown away, sent a motor launch bobbing over the waves to sink the Torrens with a prosaic charge of good, reliable dynamite...
...average preparatory school man's impression of college is gained from the hysteria of football games and his own preconceived notion of the university as a larger edition of his school. Some of these men when they enter the freshman class, are either disillusioned by the prosaic and unromantic nature of the college routine, or else they find the freedom and opportunities for pleasure too tempting and lose their heads with the new freedom...