Word: trivializations
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There is no trivial subject under the sun, from Japanese dressing gowns to Gilda Gray's hips, that is not recounted with considerable wit, and there are, besides, plenty of short quotations from famous authors, strewn through the days of the year--just the thing for the man who wishes to be the life of the party...
...Baumes Code, effective last year in New York, copied widely since, imposes life imprisonment upon any thrice-convicted person who is convicted a fourth time, no matter how trivial the fourth offender may seem. Lately, under Michigan's new Baumes Law, a three-time convict was sentenced for _ life when caught with one bottle of bootleg...
...fighting pacifist. He is the only man of whom the Encyclopedia Britannica reversed its opinion completely within a decade. General Pershing said of him: 'He has made possible what I have done.' He is a loyal friend, a gracious enemy. In his presence conversation is rarely trivial and never low. He is not all things to all men; he is the same thing to all men, a gentleman and a scholar. If a Greek piano-tuner visited his house professionally, Mr. Baker would learn all about the insides of a piano and the piano-tuner would hear about Aeschylus, Sophocles...
...resolution: "Four or five sessions of this trial, occupying as many weeks, have now been held; but the original charges on which the Superintendent was suspended, and on which he can legally be tried at this time have not been argued. Instead the time has been taken up by trivial and irrelevant matters, with the evident intention of prolonging the trial until the Superintendent's term expires in February. "In the meantime Chicago has no Superintendent of Schools. The President of the Board has usurped the Superintendent's powers, and the schools are being run without the professional...
Even if this were not so, the duty of a university would remain the same; that its members may neglect their opportunities is no reason why the authorities should cease to offer them. Mr. Johnson is original at the price of being trivial. He concludes on the hopeful note that the collee graduate, without an education but with that je-ne-saisquoi which he lacked before, will be less likely than his brother to join the Ku-Klux-Klan. Four years and some thousands of dollars at almost any college should and usually do accomplish more than that...