Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prosesketch, "A Nightmare Whisper of the War." The author has contracted from Stevenson an aggravated form of the adjectival disease, and the ineffective anti-climax with which the piece concludes does not compensate the reader for the pathological exhibition to which he has been subjected in the foregoing tedious paragraphs. Though free from this contagion, the "storiette" called "A Gamble in Orange Blossoms" is badly constructed, failing in a convincing delineation of the leading figure and obscurely cramming the subsequent vicissitudes of the hero and heroine into an inadequate final paragraph. "The Other Voice," a play let, despite the excellent...
...tedious hours of signal drill and dummy scrimmage kept the University eleven at a heavy grind on Soldiers Fields until late Yesterday afternoon. Although fear of injury prevented hard scrimmage, the practice was not lacking in vigor and life, the coaches proving unusually exacting...
...Harvard whether they wish to or not. They are a bond between the undergraduates and the graduates of the University, and they are Harvard to those who have not been here. We, therefore, say that they have work ahead of them, not because their trip will be toilsome or tedious, but because it is not going...
Last winter Miss Maude Adams and sundry collaborators made a mosaic of various passages -- now coherent and now disjointed--from Rostand's celebrated play, "Chantecler", and set them on the stage as a pretty, if somewhat tenuous and tedious fantasia. She is now bearing this amiable little entertainment up and down the country and last evening it was to be seen on the stage of the Hollis Street Theatre...
...compensated the Co-operative for damages caused by the bursting of a water main in Harvard square during the Christmas recess. It is of course true that the Co-operative Society had a legal right to compensation; but private claims against public authority are too often enforceable only by tedious and costly litigation; and it is a matter for congratulation that the Co-operative, in this adjustment, has had to deal with one of the most efficient and business-like administrative bodies in the Commonwealth. We should like to have the members of the Metropolitan Water Board know that...