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Word: tritely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wrote, last week, Professor Yandell Henderson (physiologist) and Assistant Professor Maurice Rea Davie (sociologist) from Yale, again expressing the trite thought that college professors earn too little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Again, Salaries | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...stuff. As a sewing-machine girl in a costume factory, she sings for the other girls at lunch, sings at the annual picnic, sings for the famed theatrical producer when he sends for her. Her singing and acting under Archie Mayo's directing make a trite story new and interesting, and give Warner Brothers a hit almost as potent as The Singing Fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

There is mention of integrity in the statement and this I consider pretty trite as to me it seems an elementary assumption that in this stage of American, progress, personal Integrity is a part of the concept "presidential candidate". Would anybody with professional training venture to impugn the honesty of either Mr. Smith or Mr. Thomas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whitewash | 10/31/1928 | See Source »

...succumb to a few whispered words and a brandished engraving. As traditionally gun-shy as the individual is who can afford fifty dollars for an hour's entertainment, the "con" men, the street-corner shysters, the alley speculators find him feeble when excluded by a Stadium wall. A trite fiction hoods a pillar of State Street. A hurried phrase woos a yellow back from a bond salesman. The racket flourishes as the bay tree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SING WILLOW | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

Pleasure Man was a ridiculous and stupid play relating apparently the trite story of a backstage Don Juan; actually its purpose was to exploit, not study, homosexualism in its most blatant form. A party was given on the stage by one pervert for his fellows; here Mae West provided her actors with shrill obscenities to shriek. The audience, more prurient even than the playwright, found these interludes funny or exciting; they laughed with weird crescendoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 15, 1928 | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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