Word: tepid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...praise for the departed, well larded with excuses for his weakness. "It was not so much that the principles of the League were rejected," mourned its ancient champion, 81-year-old Viscount Cecil, "[as that] the governments seemed to think all they needed to do was to give . . . tepid approval...
...pallbearer black, he drags out his days on a birdlike diet of bread crusts and boiled vegetables, in a barren, unheated apartment, aggressively campaigning to stimulate public interest in despondency.* Teppe has even offered a prize for the best Dolorist novel - "a scientific anatomy of pain, not a tepid caricature of misery." Teppe warns his disciples to shun society. Because nobody dares utter the complete truth, which is too cruel for people to withstand, "every conversation is a lie." Excitement too must be avoided ("enthusiasm is our enemy"). The biggest disillusionment of all is love. Says Teppe : "Love should...
...slithering musicomedies, as the season's first revue. But the change of pattern provided little change of luck. Despite having Dancer Ray Bolger (On Your Toes, By Jupiter), a star with about the nimblest feet in show business, Three to Make Ready slithers too. Its music is tepid and tacky. Most of its skits are not funny at all and the rest are not funny enough...
...became morbidly religious, wore spiked necklaces to mortify her flesh, built altars in the woods. She lived in a dreamworld peopled with overwrought heroes and heroines. But when her grandmother died, 18-year-old Aurore promptly married Casimir Dudevant, whom acid Poet Heinrich Heine later described as having "the tepid vulgarity, the banal nullity, the porcelain stare of a Chinese pagoda...
...average U.S. child listens to the radio about 14 hours a week, reported N.A.B. Yet, judging from a survey made in schools in the Kansas City area, even second-graders prefer adult programs to the tepid gruel of hackneyed high adventure served up specially for them by breakfast-food programs. (Network children's shows are down from 40 in 1940 to 27 this year...