Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day he again voluntarily returned to the Senate hearing at which Partners Thomas Lamont and Russell Leffingwell gave tedious testimony about financing after the U. S. entered the War. Finally Mr. Morgan expressed his disappointment. "I guess we are in for another dull day." Before catching a midday train back to ' Manhattan he shook hands with Senator Nye and his fellow investigators...
...tradition that refuses a man the privilege of knowing wherein he has erred on an examination--or wherein he has excelled, has no excuse for continuance. Granted that the ramifications of grading systems would require tedious explanations to disgruntled students. This is unfortunate. Nevertheless, a ruthless examination of the foundations of this ancient refusal will reveal that its roots lie deeply imbedded in laziness. The very fact that all bluebooks are not forever lost to undergraduate gaze once the ink has dried is evidence enough that common sense and an understanding of a defensible curiosity in the student has supplanted...
...only of anything that could be called a purple patch but of any conspicuous variation of tempo in response to a variation of mood...His aim was to write a prose independent of every colloquialism, every trick of phrase, every contemporary allusion that might make it obscure or tedious in the future." Thus followed his use of the Biblical "thee" and "thou" and his cultivation of the flowing and repetitive simplicity of oral narrative. The care that Moore lavished on every sentence in "The Brook Kerith" and "Heloise and Abelard" will excite the wonder of the uninitiated. Mr. Morgan...
Laughing Italian. A tedious and complex but potentially dangerous dispute was opened as to whether the steps taken to menace and surround Italy with war boats by Britain have been derived from the League and its Covenant, as is contended by London, or whether they have been, as Rome contends, "hostile acts" by Britain. This abstruse question was the subject of a 1,000-word memorandum by Premier Mussolini to the League last week, and Captain Eden was understood to be preparing a reply of equal length. Across the Council's green table he and Fascist Chief Delegate Baron...
...Grand Guignol melodrama about a family poisoning inflated to three acts. The facts that the play was written by Roy Hargrave (House Party), acted by Chrystal Herne and set as for a durbar by Jo Mielziner, do not prevent A Room In Red & White from becoming tedious. Silliest scene: the one in which a fiendish father (Leslie Adams) manages simultaneously to knock flat both his wife and their grown...