Word: tediousness
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...Sickly, Tedious Bosh...
...similar plans for approval by the trustees, Dartmouth having dropped chapel compulsion completely,* all within the fortnight, the students of Amherst College cried out upon the religious duties exacted from them. Said The Amherst Student: "Is not Amherst out of step with the modern liberal trend? Certainly the sickly tedious bosh which too often passes here for formal Religion can have no attraction to a virile mind. Unless religion can stand erect and challenging without the prop of attendance statistics, it deserves to topple into obscurity...
...York, N. Y. May 16, 1925. Gentlemen: To TIME San R. K. Francisco, Calif. WOOD Color-printing is, as any publisher knows, a tedious process. Were TIME to follow Subscriber Wood's suggestion, the magazine would arrive ten days late. -ED. Babes and Adults...
...Bridge of Sighs. Another bad loss was reported by observers of the opening performances of this picture. The plot reveals an idle youth who steals some money. His girl's father is accused and sent to jail. They go to a lot of pretty tedious trouble to get him out again...
...plot is simple at times being almost tedious in its leisurely narration. Particularly is this noticeable in the last act when the entire cast takes a hand in dabbling with anti-climax. Here the situation is perceptibly relieved by Miss Hitz, Pollyanna. Her pleasing effects in this scene come partly through contrast--the charming young woman of the present as compared with the gawky, freckled-faced girl of five years ago. But it is the truly delightful rendering of a distinctly difficult climax which completes the picture. We can not say too much for Miss Hitz' work. She might easily...