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Robert E. Sherwood has written a delightfully trite, for it is so true, "Standard Speech for Coaches on the Eve of the Big Event," Sandwiched between Sherwood and George S. Chappell on "Modern Developments in Collegiate, Rowing". John Dos Passos has been called in to prove that the program is not alone of athletes, by athletes, for athletes. In "What About the Theatre?" Dos Passos heralds the birth of an American Theatre, "as hopelessly lyrically American as cigarette ads or Coca-Cola...
...speech on the world court, especially when that speech is made by the fiery Senator Borah. But let the observer take heart at this apparent indication of depth and breadth of thinking in America, the cynic points out that the arguments advanced by the Senator are hopelessly trite and superficial...
...author has taken verbal photographs of the professors of law in their unguarded moments. Legal rigamarole and trite phrases of the classroom have been woven into a lifelike depiction of the Law School in grotesque...
Such whining sophistry and censure trite...
...thesis of "Mammonart" is interesting and the classifications, to say the least, are original, but Mr. Sinclair's outlook on life has always been too suspiciously blased to permit his making accurate generalizations. Art for art's sake, after all, was true long before it was trite...