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Word: soso (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Bilbo: Oh, soso. Looks pretty easy for Smith. Think he'll carry the State by 15 to 1. How about Tennessee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Barbershop Talk | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...through the paces of its first concert. She played Weber's Oberon overture, Frederick Delius's C Minor Concerto, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Tschaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. The overture and the Tschaikovsky fragments were best: the concerto with Pianist Reginald Boardman for soloist was soso; but the splendor of the Beethoven was lost. It had slipped away between individual passages and spread into nothingness. The audience, however, was kind. Loudly it clapped the virtuosity of the 70 trim players, emphatically it approved the gesticulations of Conductor Leginska, gave the verdict common to enterprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Inferior | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...adventures in friendship and moderately happy marriage of the daughter, are not particularly gripping developments. The validity of such a story depends on the extent to which the author can invest mediocre personalities with, not alone human naturalness, but significant human naturalness. By that token, these Surrys are only soso; just small-town folks with no claims on reserved seats in the grandstand for famed literary characters. But Miss Hull is well worth reading; she gives pleasure. She is precise without being precious or pompous; vivid without being vivacious?or "vital." She is one of the clear-headed people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Small-Town | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

...Woods for bedrooms; and Godfrey Tearle because he is brother, to Conway, famd cinema actor. Together these three have rolled up a murder in a plain wrapper and presented it to the public. When the wrappings were ripped off the opening night, the public gratitude was only soso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Oct. 20, 1924 | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

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