Word: prosaic
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...simple fact remains that women who took on the prosaic, behind-the-lines jobs open to them released U.S. men for the fighting fronts, just as English and Russian women have done. The enemy realizes this better than U.S. women. Last week the Berlin radio gloated over "totally inadequate" women's Army enlistments...
...entire first floor has been taken over by the Communications School, and on the prosaic wooden doors of Littauer are the legends "Simulated Communications at Sea" and "Night Watch." The main auditorium of the building, which was formerly the main reading room of the library, has a "U. S. Navy Only" sign above the door...
Today the prosaic men of the English department daily find their way through the labyrinth to get to and from their classes, and the mystery and wonder of Warren House and Henry Clark Warren are being slowly ground back into dust by their everyday heels...
With Moe Raft, Mike Sachs, and Stinky & Shorty probably peeling potatoes in North Africa, the OH has had to resort to some of the lesser lights of the boards, namely Gawgle Lewis and Max Fuhrman. Those prosaic buffoons assist the 30 glorious girls and 60 people the Old Howard claims it provides subsistence for, in making all kinds physio-dirty...
...players with the same, vivacity that won him acclaim in "Amphitryon 38," Mr. Lunt is agile and amusing. He brightens up the stage with his flourishes and his tricks, spinning back and forth, "like a top." Miss Fontanne is demure and lovely as the romantic wife of a prosaic husband. Jack Smart excels as the dull West Indian Babbitt with the tyrannical past of a pirate...