Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, pioneer sponsor of modern art here at Harvard, has received a tribute that is in no way a trivial one. The announcement in this morning's CRIMSON that some of the members have been elected to the advisory committee of the Museum of Modern Art, in New York is not only an individual honor for those men chosen but also a distinction for the society. The Harvard society is little more than a year old and the mere fact that its founders--three of the men elected--have won for their organization national recognition...
...From her blanket shroud the dog scrambled up and ran to her master. ". . . Here let us recall that in his memoirs, Fifty Years a Journalist, Melville E. Stone declared that 'the Associated Press is writing the real and enduring history of the world, and is not chronicling the trivial episodes, the scandal, and the chit-chat...
Less prententions even than "Waterloo Bridge", is Mr. Howard's "Half Goda". It is a trite and trivial discussion of modern marriage and divorce. A wife is psychoanalyzed, goes p-fff-t (as Mr. W. Winchell says) with her husband, and opens the way for a lot of deserved, but absolutely unoriginal lambasting of the so-called Science of Psychology. Of course, in the end, they all go old-fashioned, and rejoin for the sake of the kiddies. It is perhaps a bit shameful of a reviewer to criticize a play which was written for one purpose--to stay...
...Walker, Illinois Federation of Labor president; Harry Fishwick, president of Illinois U. M. W.; Frank Farrington, past president of Illinois U. M. W.; Alexander Howatt, president of the Kansas U. M. W. ?they treated with rowdy distrust. Suspicious of "steam roller" methods, they insisted that the most trivial proceedings be openly transacted on the floor before them. A tremendous uproar occurred when the secretary passed a note to the temporary chairman...
Secretary Davis: "I receive no salary from the Moose for my work as Chairman of the Board of Governors of Mooseheart, Ill. . . . However, Mr. Reporter, I do not expect to deal in these trivial things or in personalities or in casting any aspersions on any man's character...