Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether or not Mr. Thomas' point is true must be left to the courage and the conscience of the individual. His argument, as presented in a play, is formidably tedious. His central character is a Senator, of liberal tendencies, against whom the drys are massing fat rolls of slush money. There is a clergyman in the play whose college son is pictured as a sleuth for the drys, gumshoeing around the college resorts and reporting secretly to his father's party. All this makes earnest but stuffy drama. Actor Thurston Hall plays the leading part, well enough. At the opening...
...tradition. Yet she usually gives a good performance. Embers is a French play, no better nor yet any worse than the average French play. An evening spent in inspecting its current incarnation will not be wasted. Yet for two acts and despite Mr. Miller it will be perhaps tedious...
...apply alike to gods and galoshes. The derbied and the turbaned Turk are brothers below the scalp. Their desires repressed on the battle-fields of the Balkans and in the valleys of Armenia, find vent in less holy carnage on the Black Sea coast. But it must be tedious for the more peaceful Moslems to spend their mornings in detailed perusal of statute books, lost a life be at stake in the crease of a trouser leg or the tilt of a hat brim...
Between Indiana and Philadelphia lie some 600 miles of fat midlands, coal-seamed Alleghanies and factory-dotted coastal plains. It is a tedious train trip; wise people take the sleeper. By automobile it is more pleasant; the roads are excellent and through the Pennsylvania mountains there are gorgeous views. But best of all is to fly it. Then you can soar above the farmlands, circle and behold the cities like great wens on the face of nature, swoop up and over the mountains, dallying if you like on the long downward slant to peer off east to the continent...
Lawyer Darrow then adjusted his thumbs for battle, in the armholes of his vest, and twitted Senator Lenroot as follows, for having grown tedious at one point, anent the Court's organization...