Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monkeys of a jungle which seems to be more densely populated than a stadium football game and to contain an even larger collection of queer pelts and extraordinary noises. As is usually the case in films with which wild animals are intimately connected, the story is both quaint and trivial. A married lady penetrates the Malay wilds to find and be reconciled with her husband (Charles Bickford) who is court physician to the potentate. The latter, a villain addicted to oily smiles and platitudes, threatens to throw her husband to the crocodiles in the palace pond. He is foiled...
...capacity and character." Richard V. Oulahan of the New York Times ("one of the few really distinguished looking men in Washington") is described as supplying his paper with "front" for $25,000 per year. The New York Herald Tribune's Washington news "is inclined to be sensational and trivial." Mark Sullivan has sunk into "a Republican propaganda medium." Clinton Wallace Gilbert "is one of the few nationally known Washington correspondents who has not compromised his personal or professional integrity, never fawned or groveled." The few other reporters who received praise-Messrs. Ross, Anderson, Pearson, Murphy...
...play as directly as possible. Inevitable comparison between the play and the cinema reflects no discredit on the latter. It loses a little by necessary abridgments in dialog and by the limitations of the camera when confronted by the peculiar problems of the mise-en-scene, but these are trivial defects. In the large, the cinema achieves the same effect as the play: a neat melodrama given an illusion of depth by the perspectives of its setting...
...AUTHORITIES MAINTAIN A MOST CAPABLE AND A MOST EXTENSIVE AUDITING DEPARTMENT AND OUR STATEMENTS ARE ALSO AUDITED AT IRREGULAR INTERVALS BY PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS STOP . . . IN MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS OF THESE AUDITS NO FIRM OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS HAS EVER DISAGREED WITH THE WORK OF OUR OWN AUDITORS EXCEPT ON TRIVIAL AND MINOR MATTERS AND I WOULD SAY IN AT LEAST NINETEEN CASES OUT OF EVERY TWENTY WE HAVE PROVED TO THEM THAT WE WERE RIGHT AND THEY HAVE AGREED TO THIS STOP AS FOR DEPRECIATION WE COMPLY WITH THE RULES LAID DOWN BY THE DIFFERENT PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONS...
Still pending against Governor Horton, however, were seven other articles of impeachment, brought in earlier last week. Frankly trivial, these accused him, among other things, of spending $2,800 in State funds for a grand piano for the Executive Mansion three days after publicly stating that he would not do so; of pardoning a Memphis gambler while he was still a fugitive from justice; of dismissing two State highway commissioners because they would not "abdicate and surrender their official consciences"; of failing to account for public funds until after his reelection. The Governor's friends and allies were confident...