Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dates and documents are suddenly interrupted for bursts of prose poetry and cries of thanksgiving. Although his chapters on the workings of the Negro Legislatures in the South after the war will be of more interest to students, plain readers are likely to find his arguments with previous authors tedious, his claims of the social responsibility shown by black law-makers exaggerated...
...Little Girl (Fox) indicates that he pressing problem of keeping small Shirley Temple's time completely occupied is one for which her employers can find no satisfactory solution. This picture is a tedious little anecdote showing how the matrimonial differences of Dr. Donald Middleton (Joel McCrea) and his wife (Rosemary Ames) are eventually adjusted through the good offices of their mall daughter. As Molly Middleton, Shirley Temple tries hard to pull a vehicle which would be far too heavy for any adult cinemactress, manages to be surprisingly effective even in the sequence which shows Molly explaining to her Scottish...
...Joyce Wethered first won the British Women's title in 1920, held it for the next four years. She won the British Women's Open four times, last in 1929, when she retired because she found women's competition tedious. She beat Glenna Collett Vare the three times they played each other-once at St. Andrews in the British final when Glenna Collett, with 34 for the first nine holes, was 6 up at the 12th. Joyce Wethered played 18 consecutive holes in 73, had a lead of 4 up at the 2 27th hole. For years...
...while the elderly lover tells the story of it to his latest and most formidable rival (Cesar Romero), it ends in a sequence which, because Director von Sternberg wanted it to mean one thing for stupid audiences and another for intelligent ones, winds up as a feeble ambiguity. Most tedious shot: Dietrich biting her underlip to express passion...
...test meal. That small amount of bismuth does not ascertainably retard digestion, they discovered, after they set to work on three doctors and their wives, one dentist and one medical student. The most surprising fact that Drs. Maile and Scott discovered was that milk is one of the most tedious foods to digest. A pint of rich raw milk takes 6½ hours to get out of the stomach. A pint of boiled milk requires five hours. A pint of water requires only 45 minutes to get through...