Word: tedium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Outdoor Life was taken over by Popular Science. Editor McGuire was left with nothing to do. Alone and bored during the long winter evenings in his Mt. Morris farmhouse, he decided to relieve the tedium by publishing a magazine of his own, no sportsman's forum like hearty Outdoor Life but a sophisticated journal to which his friends could contribute. At first he toyed with the idea of bidding for moribund Vanity Fair, then decided to think out an entirely new editorial formula, present it in a brand-new publication...
Those who find the student's life a prosaic tedium will be particularly glad to know that at least in celluloid whimsy universities are still being run on rhythm, and Joe College is still at large. "Freshman Love" is the latest exposition of the rollicking, carefree, hilarious whirl that is the lot of the American scholar. Granted that the healthy reaction toward that title is a groan. No attempt will be made here to induce anyone to look at this picture, but the thing is not quite so bad as the foregoing classification implies...
...girl (Wendy Barrie) is a rich soap-maker's daughter who attempts the amateur hour to convince people she has talent as a singer. The boy (John Howard) is an ice cream vendor who successfully sings a duet with her but bridles when he learns her identity. The tedium of this is relieved by a small, able, comely tap dancer named Eleanore Whitney, Dave Chasen as a one-man band, and Willie Howard, whose great ambition is to sing "La Donna è mobile'' from Rigoletto without being forcibly stopped...
...richly enjoyed his tennis, his wide and indiscriminate reading, his association with the tight little group of egocentric characters who think they do New York's journalistic thinking, a more attentive study reveals such a monotony and superficiality of life as to give a cumulative effect of oppressive tedium. And a reader who followed the modern Pepys from 1911 to 1935 might be hard put to it to decide whether F. P. A.'s or Enid Bagnold's diary was the more grim...
...True (by Brian Marlow & Frank Merlin; Mr. Merlin, producer) intrudes into a jury room after a judge has handed over a murder case to five women and seven men, the defendant's peers. Jury duty usually has a few moments of genuine excitement but many more of tedium. So has Good Men and True...