Word: prosaic
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Distant Drums. Scene of this eagerly written play is the old Oregon Trail. A wagon train of pioneers, finding itself behind schedule on the trek to the fertile fields of the Pacific, decides to take a short cut across the Idaho highlands. Most of the company are prosaic folk. One, however, is not. She is Eunice Wolfhill, young wife of the expedition's leader. He has married her so he can claim an extra 300 acres of Government land. She has married him for no apparent reason. Her fluttery, unnatural behavior leads the others to whisper that she has witch...
...congress of students interested in "pleasing intellectual exercises" and in visionary idealism. As excuses for the American student's lack of interest in political and international affairs, you claimed that the "land is too comfortable" and that no great oppression is taking place. "The issues are too prosaic to merit opposition or support of armed force...
...academic walls. There are several reasons why this should be. The land is too comfortable to warrant dramatic causes. Citizens are not unduly oppressed by enthroned monarchs. Dukes carriages, bowling along the high-ways, do not crush flaxen haired blue eyed girls. The issues which are presented are too prosaic to merit the opposition or support of armed force. There is something inadequate about a secret society founded to oppose the censoring of Joyce's "Ulysses...
...below Zero. Across the bleak Manchurian steppes just south of Tsitsihar snowflakes scudded in a driving blizzard that nipped soldiers' noses, soldiers' ears. Well-publicized Chinese General Ma Chan-shan with 23,000 Chinese troops was about to make his heroic last stand against 3,500 prosaic but efficient Japanese soldiers...
General O'Duffy was at home in the North. He was born in County Monaghan. In 1919 between guerilla skirmishes with the British, he varied his military career with the prosaic duties of an auctioneer and valuator. More important, he can handle a hurley with the best of the Republican Army. Hurlers consider his monograph, "The Ethics of Hurling," a standard authority...