Word: tedium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wearing an old blue jacket and forage cap, affectionately nicknamed "Culo de Hierro" (Iron Arse), Bolívar would suddenly break the tedium of a march by challenging his companions to outjump him. He liked to dance with female camp followers around the campfire, would break off abruptly to dictate (in Spanish, French or English) his fast, polished sentences to a secretary. He pardoned his venal aides, refused to feather his own nest, praised his generals unstintedly. He deliberately resigned as Supreme Chief in order to discourage dictatorship...
...interesting sample of the latter is . . . and Tell of Time, a 712-page novel based on the post-Civil War background of Author Krey's Texas forbears (the family still owns a plantation in the cotton-growing Brazos Valley of southeastern Texas). Here the tedium of the narrative contrasts particularly with the dramatic events in which the family was involved. The Civil War itself was only slightly more violent than Reconstruction Texas, with its swarms of ruined Confederate soldiers turned loose, its bitter landowners turned Ku Kluxers to fight a black army of occupation...
...Federal Theatre). "Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks." Taking this gloomy pronouncement by Captain Shotover in Heartbreak House as his text, Author Shaw wrote On the Rocks to while away the tedium of his world tour in 1933. Last week, its belated cut-price U. S. premiere brilliantly rounded out the Federal Theatre's season...
...Harry Hopkins, who gets $12,000 a year, is conservative with the public's money, an inveterate gambler with his own. For three months Mr. Hopkins has been trying to recover from the physical effects of his appalling responsibility. Last week, reports from Florida, where he relieved the tedium of his convalescence with visits to the Hialeah race track, indicated that he would soon be ready to return to Washington...
Continuing the interview, Margo describes her innocent school days in a convent. The next scene shows where she really spent them-in a reformatory, where, to relieve the tedium and pad the act, the girls put on an impromptu play, Redlight Rosie. In Act III, the reporters are asking Margo how she got her start on the stage. Margo tells them of her romantic meeting with a producer in a conservatory at a friend's coming out party. When the curtains close this time, a few keen minds in the audience suspect that the next scene will...