Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question of the proper ventilation of recitation rooms has by this time passed from the status of a trite subject to that of a classic one. Nevertheless, we shall not repeat the remark that a college which provides instruction in chemistry, physiology, and hygiene, and which also compels its students to breathe poison for several hours a day, may perhaps, with some show of reason, he accused of inconsistency. . . .We shall not suggest that some means of ventilation other than by the windows might be provided: nor shall we hint that the students and instructors who regulate the temperature...
...anyone who saw the game words will seem futile and congratulations trite; to those unfortunates who missed one of the opportunities of their lives further comment may seem additionally cruel. Yet to refrain from congratulations to Captain Buell, Coach Fisher and the team after Saturday is impossible, and the CRIMSON adds one more note to the roar of rejoicing that still continues nearly forty-eight hours after the final whistle...
Last but not least (to be trite), came Glazmov's "Steuka Razine". It is a fine work, equally enjoyable with or without the program. It shows clearly to a Boston audience the difference between artistic treatment of a folk-song and melodramatic claptrap, in its version of the droning Volgar bargemen's song...
...book, and each other. There is not even the jauntiness that at least justified Fitzgerald's earlier works; he has fed his muse on modern highballs--and now she has the headache. We can see in the "Tales" nothing but a hodge--bodge of spillways to a very trite hell...
Under the most insuperable burden of a trite play the actors conducted themselves most courageously. Miss Anglin, of course, was beyond compare, and, in addition, several of the other parts were exceptionally well taken. First and foremost the acting of Max Montesole as "Patrick Griggs" stands out. As a cultivated and altogether lovable, if none too clear-witted Irishman--the trusted friend of Vivian Hunt (Miss Anglin) through all her trouble--he had many chances to overact which he scrupulously avoided. Indeed the entire cast was notable for its restraint. Mary Courtney (Marion Barney) played with conspicuous naturalness, while Harry...