Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loew's this week, "The Bride Were Red." Sprinkled with a pleasant whinsy, the picture displays Mr. Tone in a manner better than usual and the film is greatly enhanced by his presence. Miss Crawford is splendid in the first reel or so, after which her part becomes slightly tedious until the later episodes. Mr. Montgomery plays his ordinary rich-wise-guy-mugger role...
...personality felt through life-long knowledge of editorial practices which click. His father, onetime Representative Charles Landon Knight, left the editorship of the Woman's Home Companion in 1903 to become part-owner of the Akron Beacon-Journal. During vacations from Akron public schools, John Knight served tedious apprenticeships in the mechanical and business departments of his father's paper. Son John was given the managing editorship in 1924, made publisher in 1928. In 1927 John Knight bought the Massillon, Ohio, Independent, is still its president...
Dealing with a rather complicated plot of jewel swiping and necklace swapping, the picture is none the less sufficiently clear for pleasure. Though a bit tedious at times, "Love Under Fire" is a strong backer to a strong forerunner. Orchids to the U. T., then, for a program of definite worth at a time when first rate entertainment seems a thing of the past...
Having gone through the tedious process for three years, Annie Laurie Swaim, University of Alabama, campus beauty, decided treat this year she'd avoid the rush. Arising shortly after midnight on registration morning. she picked the No. 1 spot in front to of Alabama's administration building and did her waiting in the cool mornings, hours...
...mines. His first novel (Hatter's Castle; TIME, July 20. 1931), a gloomy lengthy melodrama, was a surprise best seller. In neither of his professions has Dr. Cronin paid much attention to the rules. To the lay reader the "cut-shop" (medical jargon ) in The Citadel may seem tedious and overdone: but to many The Citadel will appeal as a spunky onslaught on an unco-sacrosanct stronghold. For "the bogus orf Harley-street" Dr. Cronin reserves his heaviest guns. Writing in London's Daily Express after the book's publication in Britain, he thundered...