Word: trivia
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...build up Verdi as a nationalist idol bogs down in conventional heroics. In a last desperate effort at unity, the director drags in a love complication as profoundly touching as Hollywood's grade C productions. Never reaching beyond the suggestive, the picture loses itself in a maze of episodic trivia...
...genius and executive ability in the crowded, exciting days after 1928 that had added Plymouth to the line and given Chrysler a formidable competitor to Ford and Chevrolet. Competent, profane, full of studious curiosity, he had handled the complex problems of the Dodge plant-sales, labor, the thousands of trivia that pour over the desk of a big corporation executive-in his unruffled stride. In Walter Chrysler's mind there was no doubt that K. T. Keller had the mental heft to steer a motor giant which in the year just past had sold $516,830,333 worth...
...cannot say," reflected Mr. Clapper at the end of his story, "that it adds anything of historic importance . . . but with me it lingers fondly among the trivia of swirling times, with the poignant fragrance of happier days...
...people in their own good time draw their own inferences from the fact of his proclaimed national emergency, the larger fact of war on the loose, the plight of the warring democracies and the widening sphere of the dictatorships (see p. 28). Casually, as though he were stating familiar trivia, he reaffirmed what he said last year: that the U. S. will not stand idly by if any expanding foreign power attempts to muscle in on Canada on the north or-he added last week-France's possessions in the Caribbean and South America...
Lanky, tousle-mopped Amelia Earhart, whom the Pacific swallowed two years ago, flew the Atlantic twice: in 1928 with a pilot (she never touched the controls); in 1932 solo. Soaring Wings, a family memoir by her publicity-loving husband, George Palmer Putnam, is full of scrappy, discursive trivia (Flier Earhart kept bowls of little yellow tomatoes around the house to eat at random, slept three nights in a new flying coat to get it suitably wrinkled) but does manage to tell how this four-year air change came about...