Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 260 pages of ingratiating and painful romance, in the reliably glamorous Civil War-Reconstruction setting, Heroine Emily Fenwick settles down to her real business. That is, for 700 pages and 60 years more, to live out the whole vast length of her life, the trivial with the towering, the bitter with the sweet, as the essential Perfect Woman; married, raising a family, standing at the center of its vicissitudes, learning, at the end, to "believe at last with whole heart in all the dark splendor, all the terrible beauty of the world." Her flawless marriage darkens and dulls...
Wound Shock. The bane of medical officers in France during World War I. "wound shock" is a condition of "lowered vitality" which follows wounds, even trivial ones. Unchecked, it causes death. Wound shock comes from pain, loss of body heat, bleeding and toxemia. Lack of water balance, due to excessive sweating and short water rations, makes soldiers ready victims. The loss of fluid thickens their blood, produces a high concentration of poisonous urea. Best treatment for wound shock, discovered in the last year of World War I: 1) small doses of morphine for relief of pain; 2) an abundance...
...wish distinctly to take issue with Mr. Harper on the value of TIME to a Canadian reader: while its cover of Canadian news is grossly inadequate, and often trivial, TIME does beat the newspapers; examples: 1) the rise of Anthony Eden in British politics, (TIME was at least six months ahead of the newspapers), 2) I'Affaire Simpson...
...would take more than such trivial euphemisms to dim the vitality inherent in Houston's story. That vitality emerges on the screen as loud as a war whoop and as earthy as the badlands...
...Importance of Being Earnest" is pleasantly reminiscent of England's upper crust before the age of umbrella politics and Lady Astor. Fragrant, trivial, witty, and as unreal as Dresden China, this horsehair classic of Oscar Wilde's is a harmless sedative for 1939 hangovers...