Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon installed as ruler, takes the actress as his queen, attempts to govern, and is summarily robbed of the fruits of his superiority when they are rescued by an airplane. The remainder of the show is irrelevant and rather tedious...
...apparent last week with the publication of a ponderously humorous volume, patterned on Machiavelli's The Prince, purporting to bring to aspiring officeseekers the same quality of sagacious instruction, supported by instances drawn from practical politics, that the cynical Italian gave to the despots of his day. A tedious book, overlong, repetitious, The Politician contains a few hilarious examples of Fourth-of-July oratory, gives the general impression that in its composition an agreeably funny idea has been sacrificed for the sake of a stale parody and a secretly serious purpose...
Detective story addicts to whom the solving of crimes is a task essentially romantic last week found little romance in the memoirs of onetime Superintendent of Scotland Yard George W. Cornish. To professional sleuths crime detection is work like any other, hard, slow, tedious. Cornish of Scotland Yard is enlightening for its revelation of day-to-day police routine, its honest avoidance of spurious melodrama...
...trivia used in building up a case, Cornish gives himself and other super-sleuths no more credit than plain constables or voluntary informants, writes as much of murders that were never solved as of those that were. The work of running down false clues was as important and tedious as the more showy labor of capture and arrest. When the body of Minnie Bonati was discovered, in the Charing Cross Trunk Murder Case, days were wasted tracing the movements of an innocent man who happened to have bought a trunk strap on the day of the murder...
After much tedious talk the Glasgow treasurer had finally threatened to tell the public and his Laborite Council the "truth" about the Old Lady's dictatorship. Hastily the bank had called a third and final conference, which merely gave the spunky treasurer the opportunity to challenge the bank's authority to pass on security issues. Blandly the Old Lady admitted that she did not have a jot of authority. But: unless Glasgow capitulated on the bank's terms, no London banker would underwrite the bonds and they would be forever barred from the London Stock Exchange...