Word: trivialities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looked out last week across a field of maize and thought he saw two peasant women tussling in the twilight. "Don't touch me, Milica!" screamed one. Cracking his whip and clucking to his nag, the farmer boy jogged on. Reaching home he mentioned with a shrug the trivial incident...
...worry about anything so trivial? Not yet have the front-line trenches of the World War produced anything faintly resembling a good novel, nor to my mind will they. I don't suppose we shall even have a story by a real soldier describing exactly his emotions at the front, pleasure and excitement-the exultation of coming alive to the end of a day and of an action-as well as the pain and horror...
Eleven Governors were called by President Hoover. Seven accepted promptly. Though the oil production of Colorado is comparatively trivial (only about 7,500 barrels per day), that State's Democratic Gov. William H. Adams (centre figure, front cover) was an understanding host to the other executives and oilmen arriving at his State's famed resort. Gov. Adams, now 67, has grown grey and wrinkled in the service of Colorado. For 38 years he was a State Senator...
...conference of U. S. Government leaders at which a modification and reduction of German payments to the U. S. were agreed upon. These changes in U. S. claims, designed as a moral offset to the Stimson statement and as a new gesture of "friendly co-operation,'' were trivial. But they would, if accepted, be sufficient to put the U. S. in a position where its unofficial representatives at Paris could argue that their government was ready to make "a sacrifice'' to secure a new international agreement...
...when its steel hell collapses in the denouement. There is Katharine Cornell in a poor dramatization of Edith Wharton's novel, "The Age of Innocence", the star at her finest and given brilliant support in a stuffy play by Arnold Korff. Alice Brady graces with effective acting the rather trivial play based on the old badger game, "A Most Immoral Lady...