Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What was more salutary, even and for an entirely different class was MacDonald's castigation of the smart set reformers who are fully as hypocritical and shallow as the hardest-drinking dry in the Senate. These are they who weep crocodile tears over the poor workmen robbed of his beer because their bootlegger's bills are exorbitant. It is well that as sane and char eyed a man as MacDonald should have reminded America that the working man gets a bank balance or a Ford in return for his deprivation. His words more than counters balance the drivel with which...
...supported by a company sharing her earnestness and schooled by her to simplicity of gesture and the slow pace of portentous happenings. Their execution fell short of hers? Michael Strange (Mrs. John Barrymore) slipping sometimes into picayune realism in the role of Chrysothemis, Ruth Holt Boucicault being a trifle shallow as foul Clytemnestra. But lack of preparation was their ample excuse. That their few flaws would soon be remedied seemed likely when, the play's two-day run being highly acclaimed, it was moved into the Al Jolson Theatre for an indefinite...
...landing was now imperative. Marshes, mud flats, duck ponds yawned below. Upon a small patch of green, Lieutenant Wooster made a perfect landing-an almost unheard-of feat with a plane loaded so heavily. The yellow giant skidded across the green marsh into the muddy waters of a shallow duck pond, wherein the giant's beak stuck. Its tail completed a semicircle. In its cockpit lay Lieutenant Wooster with his neck broken, Commander Davis with his face crushed-both lifeless in a gloomy pool of water and gasoline. Thoughtfully, they had turned off the ignition, so that the giant...
...little more than accounts of riot, some destruction of property, and the death of one American. The Transcript, after calling attention to Cantonese "insolence" wonders why the U. S. warships have not used their guns on the Nationalists before. All this flaming and rather tawdry blustering is not only shallow but dangerous as well if it is communicated to a State Department which is not particularly noted for solid good sense under the administration of Mr. Kellogg...
Ludwig van Beethoven really needs very little apology for having composed the "Missa Solemnis" and the denial of its spiritual inspiration smacks of more shallow pretext and sophistry...