Word: trite
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...strike. Last week, many a Russian Hill housewife began stocking canned food in readiness for another general strike, but Trouble-Shooters McGrady and Hamlet loudly proclaimed that negotiations would yet succeed. President Roosevelt kept mum, but Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins left a train at Buffalo to telephone a trite request for more negotiation. The unions agreed. The shipowners refused...
With the exception of some good fight scenes, the whole thing is rather soggy, filled with trite lines and crude humor. Miss Davies does prove, however, that her day, if she over had one, is definitely over. Working under a tremendous handicap, Clark Gable does the best...
...operatic cinema is the story of a pretty U. S. nobody with a glorious voice who rises from obscurity to a triumphant debut at the Metropolitan. Since Soprano Marion Nevada Talley actually had such a career, it might be expected that her first picture would follow the same trite formula. Follow Your Heart's chief asset is that it does...
...getting rather trite to say that Milt Green starred. His three wins in both barrier races and the broad jump piled his yearly total of points up to a total of 53, which, if it isn't some kind of a record, is at least fairly remarkable...
...Commissioner D. Frederick Burnett was asked to pass on the propriety of a barroom Venus that had outraged the sensibilities of a passing minister's wife. After personal inspection, Commissioner Burnett wrote to the complainant: "The painting is mediocre, the color flat, the style eclectic and the subject trite. I am not concerned, however, with artistry or the lack of it. ... There is no reason why places for the consumption of liquor should not be made comfortable and decorative. . . . Pictures, as well as flowers, may brighten a corner. "Obscene' should not be an execration lightly to be hurled...