Word: prosaic
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...cold to row, or too hot to play squash, has been rather a problem. The new moving-picture palace, as is clearly shown by the out of the prospective interior which appears on another page of the CRIMSON, seems especially created to bring new concepts of beauty into the prosaic life of the student. The courses in Fine Arts are well enough in their way, but many undergraduates have found it impossible to follow both the lecture and the pictures, even when the latter remained stationary. But in this newest addition to the potentialities of Harvard night life the student...
Meantime schoolchildren continued their vacation rompings. Parents pruned their bread and butter tree. Ordinary days went by, adding into everyday weeks, which became commonplace months in a prosaic year...
...This Is Marriage is one of the most curious hybrids that the pictures have produced. Right in the middle of a prosaic history of a young wife who spent too much money, is introduced an elaborate Biblical adventure in luxurious color film. David and Bath-Sheba, battles and beards, dancing girls and the annoyance of the Lord thereat are profusely painted in. They illustrate the villain's attempt to justify to the wife her proposed seduction by himself. Very properly the bewildered girl burst into tears and went downstairs to her husband. The picture proves that travel talks...
...scene is laid in a Greenwich Village garret. The prosaic daily, or more appropriately, nightly routine of four young Villagers, male, is jarred by the unconscious arrival of one more Villager, female. She is banged in the head by a brutal escort four stories below (although, to let you into a secret, the irate voices really come from the orchestra). The young men gallantly offer her succor, and abandon their apartment to her for the night when it appears that she is unable to leave...
...Prosaic matters such as bullets do still enter into consideration, just as forcefully as they impress themselves upon the soldier; still, the romance of war is redeemed by the paltry value of the arid soil the Spanish and Moroccans are fighting over. This is no bating-match between rival nationalities; it is rather a jousting time for lumbering knights-errant...