Word: trivialities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...favor of law enforcement. Dry organizations were invited to help choose the poster designs. ¶ The first few days of operation of the Jones Act ($10,000-fine-and-five-years-in-jail law) brought out the following observations : That although it makes manufacture, transportation and sale, however trivial, a felony, it imposes no new penalty for illegal possession of liquor, an omission which may be welcome to many. That the new law is in the nature of "protection" for U. S. citizen-bootleggers; for, since offense is a felony, aliens found guilty can be at once deported, restricting...
Among a colonizing and militantly imperial race, like the British, such an incident would seem trivial, minuscule. But so fledgling and unmilitant is U. S. imperialism that the death of even one young colonizer as he raced for home does not lack poignant significance...
...TRIVIAL BREATH ? Elinor Wylie? Knopf...
...most distinguished one-time victim of Elinor Wylie's fascinations predicts of her work that it will sicken and die of its own perfume. For all its vengeful malice the prophecy is certainly justified by so cloying a title as Trivial Breath, and further substantiated by much that follows the title. Mistress of euphuistic words, she is carried away by their glamor, too easily seduced from reason. An occasional poem "makes sense," but the sense sounds affected. Sorrow is, for instance, one of the emotions the poet rather fancies, and so she mentions it prettily, knowingly...
...other drollery, trivial, befell Actress Yvette Laurent when she strolled into a Deauville bar and sang out cheerily to a middle-aged man, "How about a little drink...