Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disagreement in the University of Cincinnati chapter of Sigma Chi fraternity ended in the expulsion of one sharp-tongued law student. Last week Sigma Chi decided to reconsider the expulsion, found the offense "trivial," reinstated Brother Willis Van Devanter, 76, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court...
...rival, has told him in her inimitable way to hold up his chin. As is her custom, she makes a real fellow out of a hopeless sissy; so much so that he feeds his favorite stuffed bird to her vivacious pup. But her achievements are never limited to such trivial reformations, for she is a minor Orphan Annie. This time she puts over a night-club venture for a bunch of Russian immigrants whom she met on the way over, and brings the erstwhile namby-pamby into conjunction with the pretty dancer of the lot. Lesser triumphs, such as beating...
...arrangements of any Presidential family been so fully explained to the public as Mrs. Roosevelt has explained them. She has arranged to write for United Features, beginning with the New Year, a feature called "My Day" in which she will report her daily doings "serious or humorous, important or trivial." Last week she undertook to give her female Press conference a first-hand view of living conditions in the White House by escorting newswomen through the service quarters, rebuilt as a WPA project last summer. The tour took nearly an hour. Proudly exhibited were: 1) the servants' dining room...
...humble native American chauffeur who, with touching fidelity, had sought to save his master. In Washington, where members of Asia's diplomatic missions pride themselves on "being hep to everything United States," the speeding incident was seen at the Iranian Legation to be a piece of trivial yokelry. However, to keep the diplomatic record straight, heavily embossed Iran stationery was got out and a formal protest to the State Department written, signed, sealed and delivered.* Without divulging their reason for so doing the Cabinet of Iran suddenly resigned this week at Teheran after 26 months in office under Premier...
...delightful farce starring Roger Pryor and Leila Hyams. Roger undertakes to spend $1,000 a minute for twelve hours, to settle a bet between two plutocrats. A yacht, a race horse, a Duesenberg, a mastiff, an elephant, a Trans-continental airplane, a $30,000 fur coat, and sundry other trivial bring the story to the point where Roger has to have $50,000 to buy a tube of radium (a gift to a hospital) and has a capital of only...