Word: tedium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presence of Ruby Keeler, he finally comes out topside and, as might be expected, is ready to and almost does, die for the dear old navy. Certain interludes when Ruby Keeler tapdances, Dick Powell sings, and several fine photographic shots of Annapolis do much to relieve the tedium of an ancient story replete with flag-waving. Unless one can see intrinsic beauty and goodness in battleships, however, pleasure in seeing the picture will be marred by the most obvious kind of propaganda...
Wending their way homeward yesterday after the tedium of an eleven o'clock government class, a group of Dunstermen were faced quite unexpectedly with living proof of the well known and well worn adage: "It's a wise child." On the corner, practically casting shadows across the monastic windows of Leverett's dining-room stood a young woman, of no apparent decision, waiting, perhaps, for a streetcar. Clutching her hand was what the biblical writer must have been thinking of when he referred to the little child that shall lead them. But the infant, vest-pocket edition though...
...very breadth of the subject made it too broad a field for one man to cover. The fact that in the future Dr. Bock will deliver two lectures on hygiene and the other eight will be given by authorities in their respective fields promises to relieve the tedium inevitable in such a subject...
Curly Top (Fox). Elizabeth Blair (Shirley Temple) and her sister Mary (Rochelle Hudson), inmates at the Lakeside Orphanage, so endear themselves to the richest member (John Boles) of the board of trustees that he decides to relieve the tedium of a summer at Southampton with his good-humored elderly aunt by adopting them. Little Elizabeth's diversions of frolicking about with her pony and duck, teasing the English butler, dancing and singing in amateur theatricals are thereafter interrupted only once. This is when her older sister and her guardian, being too inhibited to confess their love for each other...
Languishing in the dingy depths of Stillman infirmary, ailing students yearn for some recreation to relieve the tedium of long days in bed, but when they turn to the library which is provided for them they find only a few dog-eared detective stories and stuffy novels. Compared to the impressive collections of books at college infirmaries like that of Dartmouth, the facilities offered Harvard men appear meager indeed...