Word: prosaic
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...custom of a monthly magazine called The Mailbag (monthly; published in Cleveland; slogan, "All about direct-mail-advertising") to comment upon or reproduce advertisements which, in the Mailbag's judgement, have emitted a definite sparkle in the thick welter of advertisements-blatant and humble, proud and straining, prosaic and hysterico-lyrical-that fill the public prints. Lately, the Mailbag found a gem. It was in the American Mercury and it advertised that melange of outgrown modes and manners, The Mauve Decade by Thomas Beer (TIME, July 5, BOOKS), not only in the curlicued typefaces of 30 years...
...conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the honorary degree of Doctor of Music. Said President William H. P. Faunce: "He is a distinguished virtuoso and interpreter of the music of all peoples; leader of concerts in London, Madrid, Barcelona and Warsaw, who has crossed the seas to convey to prosaic America some of his own insight into the arts in the universal language of music." Conductor Koussevitzky speaks little English, could think of no fitting reply, instead lifted his bass violin, played eloquently Handel's Largo, the Andante from his own concerts, made his U. S. debut as a soloist...
...crook, has yet to write poetry. Indeed his muse is not sufficiently--to use his own words--distillate. In fact one might even believe murder detrimental to that divine something which breeds noble rime. But then again there is Francois Villon. Modernity lacks savoir faire even the rogues are prosaic...
Thus placing the discussion on the prosaic basis of business training, Mr. Babson gives the News opportunity to retort that a college is "no business training school. God forbid." "Living, not business, is life's purpose." And the college is not to be judged in terms of the business efficiency of its graduates...
...characters who are in the limelight as real sentient, breathing entities instead of sort of automatons. You have us acquainted, we know them, and are personally interested in them. TIME has many virtues but I wish to speak particularly of your piquant, picturesque, poetical handling of our somewhat prosaic mother tongue. I think your ability in this line reached its climax in your issue of Nov. 16, p. 20, col. 3, when you say, "The thunder that darkly strode from the organ pipes . ..." Ah! that I might have been there to see! Weird, mystic shapes, tremulous, vibrant, sonorous, which "strode...