Word: trivialities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thus leaving the educational horse to eat his head off, and the upkeep of the school-barn to run along without return? The Bureau of Education found out: "The erroneous attitude of parents in considering it less serious for the younger than for the older children to miss school. . . . Trivial excuses such as 'went to town,' 'ran an errand,' 'got up late,' 'had shoes repaired...
...miners continued "presenting their case" (the operators have not yet begun) but most of the matters brought up were trivial-classed by observers as trading points...
Night Life of New York. Dorothy Gish, Rod LaRocque and Ernest Torrence are no trivial trio to begin with, and their current fable gives good opportunity. It is another light comedy, the tale of a Western youth cast loose along Broadway with adequate funds. It brings in, by picture and by name, all the actual night clubs of the district, a comely telephone operator, a father who fails to impress upon his son the ultimate delights of the domestic fireside...
...recrimination, deluges of tears. The sun reappears when, for a motive of her own, a delicious minor character-the spinster sister of the durable male friend -shoehorns some one else into the host's desirable London position. As basking is resumed, it is observed that "every quarrel, however trivial, contains all the quarrels that are older than the hills...
...this same "atmosphere" and suspicious that no combination of tutors, honors and liberty could produce the ideal commonly pictured, The Dartmouth (undergraduate daily newspaper named for its college), last week, published supplementary impressions of Oxford by one Franklin McDuffee, who had studied there. He wrote of Oxford's trivial, traditional regulations- gowns for classes, hours for going home at night, bans on public and private dances and on hotels and restaurants not licensed by the Vice-Chancellor, "gating"* and fining for offenses. He wrote of the pitfall of idling that gapes for "men who lack pronounced will power...