Word: tastelessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bread−soggy, tasteless on the screen...
Bread. A soggy, tasteless adaptation of the novel by Charles G. Norris, leavened only by an improvement in the acting of Mae Busch. Mr. Norris, to encourage home-life and the patter of tiny feet, drew a penny-scrimping stenographer to whom marriage was bliss at first, then mere unbearable penny-scrimping. She left her husband, never went back, was sorry ever after. On the screen she comes gushing back for the usual reconciliatory osculation. Never were worse subtitles committed...
...horrors of Memorial Dining Hall and Cafeteria. I have eaten at the Cafeteria for two years and find your picture overdrawn. I do not think the food is of "secondary quality," otherwise I should not have stayed so long. The cooking I do not consider "poor and tasteless." If this has driven anyone away, on the other hand I know of an individual who left because the food was flavored too strongly. The Cafeteria cannot hope to satisfy all extremes of taste among its members. The staff this year has seemed to me courteous and efficient. While a large-scale...
Criticism of the Cafeteria has been even more sharp. Men eat there only because of its location and its prices. The secondary quality of its foodstuffs, the poor and tasteless cooking, the very apparent inattention on the part of the staff and the student waiters to fundamental details of cleanliness, are such as only to be borne through the necessity of time and purse. And when for all this one pays only a trifle less than one would on the Square, the reasons for eating there disappear...
...every scribbler for "woodpulp publications", garnished previously with a touch of sauciness and rather new spice. We say "previously" advisedly; for as has been hinted, his "Tales" fall below even the standard set by "Flappers" et al.; the sauciness has run dry and the spice become flat and tasteless. The "Tales" show a marked weakening. Fitzgerald went up like a rocket; but now that he has reached his apex and is in danger of descending like the stick, he should spare himself and his public any further humiliation...