Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spokesman for Industry. Randall's ideas conform to no trite pattern. After service in World War I (he was a staff officer in Harry Truman's division), he abandoned a legal career for Inland Steel, and in 24 years worked his way to the top. In Chicago and beyond, he pulled more than his weight in serving on charity drives, civic bodies and educational boards (he is now an overseer of Harvard University). In 1938, he delivered a Harvard series of lectures on labor strife and civil liberties, in company with veteran Civil Libertarian Roger Baldwin. When Harry...
...name of all society editors who have ever wearied of the trite flittings of the elite, permit me to thank you for your tremendously well-done account of Martha Rountree's Washington party [TIME, June...
...realize what's what in the world. The acting, most of it done by Cecil Parker and Celia Johnson, is as good as the rather uninspiring script allows, but the whole thing bogs down into a sentimental quagmire too often, and many of the characters and situations are trite. As propaganda, the picture does manage to bang over some not too subtle arguments about the treatment of offenders...
...Mount," translated from the Syrian by Tawfig Sayish, is overbalanced with strained imagery ("the sleepless fish make weary passes at the blushing corn") but it also conveys a dignity and sense of wonder. There can be little praise, however, for Peter Junger's "Sea Change," in which a trite subject is locked in an erratic meter...
...even the most advanced Macfadden theories seemed trite compared to the revolutionary Macfadden inventions. Most sensible of these was the "physical culture watch"-a turnip-size timepiece whose dial showed what exercises should be performed and what food eaten at given hours (e.g., "8 a.m. No breakfast. Take glass cool water. Walk to work. Identify the birds . . ."). Others included an apparatus for sluicing "pure Macfadden air" over the skins of fully dressed businessmen while they sat working at their desks, and a narrow-gauge railroad with open flatcars for the use of customers in department stores. ("It will revolutionize Macy...