Word: prosaic
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...appears too that the Biology Laboratory receives a large share of wooly cloth. But officials hastened to explain that the soft texture 0 the diapers make them ideal for the prosaic purpose of polishing glass ware...
...quite knows how much of the legend is Casey and how much is the imagination of Sportswriters Ring Lardner, W. O. ("Bill") McGeehan, Ed Anthony, Joe Williams and friends. The legend was built on a prosaic baseball career that began in Kansas City in 1910. In 1912 Casey (for K. C.) went up to the National League as outfielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers. In 1918 he was traded to Pittsburgh, then to Philadelphia, New York and Boston of the National League...
...While touring the Spanish front last spring, Actor Flynn was reported wounded by a machine-gun bullet. Prosaic truth was that he was hit on the head by falling plaster, knocked unconscious for four hours. Warner Brothers, piqued at the press reports, threatened to assign Actor Flynn a public relations counselor. *The real Bagdad is on the famed Tigris River. *While the picture was in making last August, the magic carpet fell with a vengeance, killing two workmen, injuring two others (TIME, Sept...
Declaring that serving afternoon tea has become too prosaic, the staff in the Dean's office at Robinson Hall now takes pride in handing out mint balls to itinerant afternoon visitors...
...unpredictable, for in his lambic couplets he has attempted to sound that soothing harmony of compassion tinged with soft, self-childing satire so elusive for the reader to hear yet so pleasant when once heard and held in memory. Whether he succeeds without appearing to descend to the prosaic and the trivial depends entirely on the individual reader...