Word: tediousness
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...charms, more universal in appeal. What is tuneful is combined with what is funny, what is stimulating is added to what is ennobling, though it must be remarked, in Producer White's favor, that he tried hard to control his appetite for the esthetic and only in one tedious scene did it master him completely. This was when a group of nuns were used as the background for a rendering of Ave Maria...
...face of such criticism, Ethelreda Lewis, discoverer, editor, and co-author of Trader Horn, maintains confidence in her garrulous and often tedious old peddler. And by way of backing up her publishers' brilliant advertising campaign, based as it is on the essential truth of Trader Horn, she writes a 52-page introduction to volume two, refuting all past and future doubts as to authenticity. She emphasizes the difficulty of computing dates because the trader's 74 years have (conveniently) mingled and mellowed into great confusion: instance his conviction that the Great War was in 1902. She records...
DEAD LOVERS ARE FAITHFUL LOVERS- Frances Newman-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Curiously enough this book is not tedious. The first half concerns itself with the gold negligees, white ribbons, and creamy laces a pre-war Southern bride arranges for the retention of her husband's physical affections; the second half with the green hats, coral gowns, and visceral sensations of the girl who, ten years later, falls heir to those affections. Not that he, a chivalrous Southern gentleman, would involve her in an illicit relation, but as soon as his established reputation as rail-road president permits of a divorce...
...doing Mr. Kellogg at last gave a definite and constructive turn to the tedious correspondence which he has kept up on the subject of such a treaty with French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand (TIME, July 4, et seq,). Copies of the Briand-Kellogg correspondence were tactfully enclosed as background material by Secretary Kellogg in his notes to the Powers of last week. The whole point of the notes, however, was to submit to the Powers a tentative multilateral treaty text which is essentially Mr. Kellogg's own conception. Brief, this treaty text contains only three articles...
...sort of piece which is usually identified with the word "charming". That is what grandma would have called it, and grandma is sure to get a big treat out of "Just Fancy". So are you, if the producers will only cut out a few of the more tedious passages...