Word: prosaic
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...Seal has finally disappeared from the House menus, and with it Riverside Farm. Now the boiled eggs must rely on such a prosaic substitute as "Hennery" for their eye appeal...
From then the show grinds on in dreary monotone. The patient audience is wafted back and forth, back and forth between the fairyland of Casinario and the prosaic world of fact. Of course, M. Banco effects a coup d'etat in the land he has come to rescue. Then he alternates between oppressive sanity and enlightened madness. The queen alternates between resolutions to abdicate and to force her handsome granddaughter into marriage with the tyrant. This princess alternates--but it's even duller in the telling. Climax succeeds anti-climax in rapid succession; tick, took, tick, tock; monotonous alteration...
Before a rustling audience of 75, oldtime Actress Maude Adams (Peter Pan, The Little Minister) swept into a Manhattan courtroom to defend herself in a prosaic $200,000 lawsuit. Carried away with the scene, the World-Telegram reported: "The courtroom was crowded with staidly gowned women and mustachioed old gentlemen. . . . On November 6, 1905, Peter Pan's cue line, spoken in the nursery, read: 'Dear night light, that protects my sleeping babes, burn clear and steadfast tonight.' . . . Today an attorney said: 'Miss Adams, will you take the stand, please...
...reason. He had been the election commissioner of Boston, which surely is a far better qualification for the postmastership than a mere thirty-seven years in the postal service, after all, a postmaster in these days when wishes are Farleys, and beggars may ride, has important responsibilities besides the prosaic work of delivering the mails. Mr. Tague had shown, both as Congressman and as Election Commissioner, that he could admirably fulfill all demands made by the New Deal upon its officials...
...revealing how the "private" activities of men-their moods, love affairs, desires, plans-are influenced by such remote social and political developments as strikes or the threat of war, Romains has made an impressive and original contribution to modern fiction. And in keeping the first volumes of his masterwork prosaic and detailed, it may well be that the Frenchman is merely preparing the ground for the great climax that will take place when war eventually breaks and when the shells that fall on Paris will explode with equal justice on men of good will...