Word: trivializations
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...armed forces after graduation. They deserve a send-off. Morever these last exercises means a lot to some of us, and to our friends and relatives, even if it is only a chance to strut and be the center of attention for a few hours. Such is harmless and trivial, but very necessary and dear to men. Sincerely, George J. Grindle...
...last two stories have more direction for they deal with objective problems which their authors can understand and control. While their issues may seem trivial and dated, it is refreshing to find that ideas as well as "atmospheres" haunt the minds of the Mt. Auburn Street coterie. "Roll Your Own," Cecil Schneer's first contribution to the Advocate, is a somewhat overlong tale of a mortgage foreclosure, but it contains some unusually well conceived characters, ably portrayed by dialogue and incident. Harold Smith's "Boy Wanted" though the slightest of these stories in stature, succeeds the best. Here...
...girl he loved (Hedy Lamarr); his easy, fateful slide into his late father's (Charles Coburn) sinecure; his passionless marriage to his mother's choice (Ruth Hussey); his slightly bewildered, slightly querulous, slightly pathetic acceptance of his fate: a cushioned middle age, the deadly divinity of trivial things...
Tommy Manville, Manhattan's silver souvenir of the trivial '20s, took another wife-his fifth. The bride was Bonita Francine Edwards, 22, a blonde showgirl whom 47-year-old Manville had met four days before. "Long engagements may be out of style," said the groom to the press, "but we're glad we waited till we were sure." The bride said frankly: "I'm not in love with Tommy-I'm just infatuated. I hope to fall in love with him after a while...
...refused to forgive the Inter-Allied debts and thereby prevented any timely forgiving of the fateful German reparations. The result is that Germany now has Hitler, while we are accumulating a debt for national defense which makes the Inter-Allied debts and the reparations of the last war seem trivial...