Word: trite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal letters. Do not mention the Crusade-it is not necessary to mention The Methodist Church; we are not organizing another 'pressure group' but expressing the convictions of Christian citizens. Above all, do not copy anything from the Crusade literature-do not use the Crusade phrases- avoid trite phrases and Biblical, 'pious,' poetic, figurative and similar expressions. . . . Stick to the simple propositions: we are against isolationism; we favor collaboration; we want a fair, just, righteous and lasting peace...
...free-for-all about the husband shortage, was likely to remain unchallenged as the worst show of the season. MANHATTAN NOCTURNE (by Roy Walling) told how a down-in-the-mouth writer (Eddie Dowling) and a poor little call girl gave each other the faith to begin afresh. A trite story tritely told, it had moments of theater, might possibly-in this most uncritical of seasons-squeak through...
...place was colorful. Mostly it was boring, but it was colorful sometimes. The sergeants, of course, come out on top in that category. Colorful? . . .! Sergeants have been written about by so many wistful draftees of World War II that they're as trite as KP, but the fact approach to ROTC was a little skeptical, usually distrustful, seldom fawning...
...snow gauge catches snow in a funnel, melts it in a pan below, stores and measures the residue. If there is a "moon faced" young man about the house who .discourses upon art, life, love, employs trite French phrases, "inevitably the day will come (even if you he ve to wait for it for many years) when h^ will sigh and murmur...
...wrenched out of it by the necessity of recording . . . man's reaction to the greatest crisis of all history. . . . No aggregation of the art of the future can fail to be profoundly altered by the record these men are making of the titanic times which go, in our trite vocabulary, by the name of Today...