Word: tepid
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...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...
...Americana (RKO-Radio) might easily have been just one more plate of canned, tepid chile con carne served up as a hemispheric good-will offering. But Producer-Director John H. Auer and several of his players have turned it into a rather entertaining and realistic little picture...
Lady Chatterley, the late D. H. Lawrence's famed free-loving heroine, had one account of her conduct upheld. New York State's Court of Special Sessions considered The First Lady Chatterley (tepid first version of Lady Chatterley's Lover), found by a 2-to-1 decision that there was "reasonable doubt" of its obscenity...