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This week John wrote a letter to the board pointing out the reasons for his "disinclination" to appear: "The cavilings of the bar and bench . . . will consume a tedious time. . . . Two members of your board [Taylor and Ethridge] are biased and prejudiced. . . . [Taylor] is inherently incapable of determining the distinction between a fact and a scruple. ... In attendance is Ching [Cyrus Ching, Federal conciliator], a truly remarkable man, who sees through the eyes of United States Rubber." The board read the letter and subpoenaed him. Still John declined to appear. Then Federal Judge Richmond B. Keech ordered him hauled into...
...years old, John Bull was also virtually new to Broadway, having been 43 years absent. On the whole, it seemed less rusty from time than the Gate seemed dusty from travel. Shaw's two-way joke about England and Ireland can get devilishly talky and even downright tedious. But certainly at its best John Butt is still impressive; whereas even at its best the Gate seems merely competent...
...California Institute of Technology to be ground and polished. The 20-ton blank was placed face up on a turntable. As it revolved slowly, a 48-inch disc set with blocks of abrasive was stroked mechanically back & forth from its edge across its center. The whole process was maddeningly tedious...
...Case (brother & sister) are far from agreeing with Carol Kennicott that Chautauqua was "nothing but wind and chaff and heavy laughter, the laughter of yokels at old jokes, a mirthless and primitive sound like the cries of beasts on a farm." We Called It Culture recalls how cheap and tedious Chautauqua could be at its worst. It also insists that at its best it brought to provincial society a leaven of excitement, entertainment and intellectual stimulus...
...please her. ("I know exactly where I put my nail file," she says, "and I like to find it exactly where I left it.") This is why she prefers, as few skaters do, the required school figures to free skating. The school figures, 41 types in all, are the tedious, exacting, incredibly difficult fundamentals of figure skating (like a vocabulary test that must be passed before being allowed to make a speech). They count 60% in championship competition...