Word: tedium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Above is reprinted the first page of the Plymouth program with several unimportant animadversions scribbled on the last page of the program as the opening of the exit doors allowed a breath of fresh air to relieve the tedium of the long-drawn-out importation...
...steamship "Ryndam" of the Holland American line, 560 feet in length and 22,070 tons displacement, shown in the cut is being outfitted with classrooms, gymnasium library, and other educational necessities. In addition to college work, dramatics, concerts, and compulsory athletics will divert the tedium of life on shipboard. About 40 per cent of the total time, eight months will be spent ashore...
...drive the reader quite frantic. One is forced to admit that one is impressed by the personal use of you, but when one finds page after page of "You, Laura Regan, the bride, His." "God. You. Beloved" one becomes depressed as Miss Hurst herself would express it, by "The tedium. The tedium. The tedium...
Only a slight play of the fancy can now create a new vision of the sailor's leisure. The bunks, rising shelf on shelf, each own its feeble light, and its prostrate Conrad with open book. Thus is the tedium of the long "road to Mandalay" bridged for the men who know the starkness of Kipling's and Stevenson's enchanted seas. And Pegasus unchained is a new lure to the "sober men and true attentive to our duty". The romance of the picture cannot be denied...
...play that sets out to be sophisticated and arrives only at tedium. Most of the lines are like firecrackers that end, not in a snap, but in a sultry hiss. Probably much of this inefficiency is due to the acting. Alma Tell is sorely put to it to play a fascinating and experienced woman of the world. Such a woman must have a certain cutting edge. Miss Tell provides a round performance. A. E. Anson manages much better as a lean and saturnine seducer. The others do not matter...