Word: tediousness
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...radical turn should be the course of the legal controversy as to whose tender wing shall harbor the person of little ten-year old Gloria Vanderbilt until she comes of age, that of Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney or that of Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt. After some weeks of tedious briefs, replications, rejoinders, evidence from the kitchen, and random scurrility, the Supreme Court has closed its cars to further discourse concerning the whimsies of the elite. Justice Carew, a modern Solomon as it were, assured the public Wednesday that the child ". . . is not to have for the future the life that...
...Johnson well knew that going around to maternity hospitals to collect the waste waters of childbirth was a silly and tedious procedure. Because the amniotic fluids of all higher animals are alike in their antiseptic potency he went instead to dairy farms, and stood by while cows dropped their calves...
...Machen will presumably be brought to trial by the Presbytery, which last week appointed a committee to study the case. In the same situation was Dr. James Oliver Buswell Jr. of the Chicago Presbytery. He was asked to resign or undergo a trial which "would involve many tedious and practically useless formalities...
...Daily Bread (Viking). For the average Hollywood producer, Depression furnished a number of tedious gags, a few new turns for old plots. But it failed to invest the cinema with much New Deal sentiment, much sense of economic ferment. This fact has long rankled in the impatient mind of thick-lipped, shock-haired King Vidor...
Whatever talents as an actor Henry Cabot Lodge's grandson may have are set off to poor advantage by the picture. A tedious hyperbole in which Director Josef von Sternberg achieved the improbable feat of burying Marlene Dietrich in a welter of plaster-of-paris gargoyles and galloping cossacks, it seems all the more inadequate by comparison with Elizabeth Bergner's Catherine the Great...