Word: prosaic
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...possibility of having a mysterious knife thrust among one's ribs for inadvertent observations on the picture, even a news reel of the Coney Island bady parade would become interesting, and the more the subtitles, the more thrilling the picture would be. But such dreams seem doomed. The prosaic fine is more lawful than the glamorous murder, and all gangmen and impulsive female murderesses will be confined either to the screen or to the jail...
Lieutenant Casale, one of France's most famous aces, decorated with the Military Medal, the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre, fought unharmed through the great war from May, 1915, when he obtained his pilot's certificate. Piloting a commercial airplane on a prosaic civilian task, his plane got out of control and fell into a wood near the village Dameraucourt near Beauvais. Casale was crushed and killed. His mechanician escaped without injury...
...partial explanation has been offered. The great mass of people, whose lives are prosaic in the extreme, and who crave excitement to satisfy their natural impulses, find an outlet for their emotions in the reading of tales of murder and suicide. They find a kind of psychological relief in the death and mental anguish of others; and thus, perhaps, are kept from committing suicide themselves. Mental stimulation furnishes a sort of antitoxin to what is generally termed "the latent blood-lust of a morbid humanity...
Although the aviator failed miserably in giving the prosaic world a message from the skies, he opened a wonderful new field for advertising. The success of his parachute, a home-made product, advertised the parachute. The flaming tights did the rest; for they drew such a crowd that shop windows and iron railings along the street were broken. To this throng the aviator advertised by word of mouth a department store, an eye doctor, whose card he wore on his chest, and himself, whose card he passed around, as Lieut. Hubert Julian, M.D., the M.D. being translated by the lieutenant...
Soap is in disfavor on the New York stage. In two plays now current-You and I and The Comedian-characters acknowledge for purposes of comedy that they are manufacturers of that substance. Soapmaking is in stageland the acme of the prosaic...