Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight Hearst editors looked dazedly first at a telegram, then at a photograph. The wire was from Publisher Hearst's secretary: "Some of the papers are printing trivial items relating to Lindbergh. ... As he has shown himself distinctly unfriendly, Chief cannot see any reason for helping any publicity efforts relating to him. . . . 'Trivialities are not news'." The picture, hot off the telephoto, an apparently exclusive shot by the Misses Selby and International News Photos showing Baby Charles Augustus ("Eaglet") Lindbergh, Mother Anne, Grandma Morrow and Great-Grandma Mrs. Charles Long Cutter. Fearfully the Hearst editors stalled...
...back from him of any importance and if he has kept anything back from the public that is a matter of his own discretion. I have lived in accordance with my convictions and if I am troubled by remorse for certain things I have done, they are things so trivial by the ordinary standards . . . that even I cannot explain why they can still be sometimes almost excruciating to recall; hard, wounding things I have said to people . . . the way I once hit at and did not kill a rat and had to go on killing it, and other things...
...pretty conventional and trivial, but when Miss Bennett is around it doesn't make much difference. It is a little difficult to place her as a simple New York stenographer during her first few days in Paris. She looked and acted as though she were born there. The dialogue as spoken by Miss Bennett is polished and, at times satirically clever, but McKenna is a bit ponderous over some of his best lines...
...incident in the life of the theatre and it may be the hand writing on the wall. Some years ago the Copley was forced to discard the plays of Shaw, Molnar, and other of the contemporary immortals, because Boston was uninterested. The company then turned to mystery plays and trivial fantasies in an attempt to conform with local dramatic appreciation. For a time it seemed that the venture would succeed. But that, too, has failed...
...more complex. The public was beginning to for get it. Boston audiences have never been particularly enthusiastic or acute. There are only a handful who prefer the legitimate parent to the illegitimate son. The ruck are either too dull to fathom the sensible, or too untutored to follow the trivial...