Word: trivialize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiral Graf von Spee, with six nin. guns, was launched and hailed by the Fatherland's Press as "unmatched in battle power for her size." Chancellor Hitler, just before the Nazi revolt broke, inspected the great Krupp works at Esse-n. Instead of passing this off as a trivial event. Publisher Hitler's personal news-organ covered its entire front page with militant pictures from Essen showing the Chancellor promenading with Master Armorer Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach...
...Small illegitimate Hathaway gets better breaks than her close relatives. Her mother flies an airplane out to sea for a glamorous suicide. Dr. Monica and her husband, who is still ignorant that he is the father of the child, adopt the infant and seem delighted with her actions. A trivial contribution to the cinema's dossier on bastardy, Dr. Monica serves to demonstrate the versatility of Warner's latest star, Jean Muir. who was the patient-faced farm girl in .45 the Earth Turns, a pioneer's daughter in The World Changes...
...cinema technique. In Hollywood, the accepted procedure for musical films is to elaborate and enlarge. Heart Song, which was financed by Fox and Gaumont British for UFA production, strives, like most of Director Erich Pommer's productions, to be as small and delicate as possible. Its sly and trivial grace is becoming to the miniature charms of Lilian Harvey, who was too often lost in the exaggerations of Hollywood productions. Good shot: an audience at the palace dozing uneasily at a concert given by the Empress's four nieces...
...taxi. Out of the taxi stepped three members of the New York Stock Exchange: its onetime President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons, with an injured shoulder; its Governor Herbert G. Wellington, with a cut lip; its Vice President Allen Ledyard Lindley, badly shaken. Total damage, as estimated by Bumper Cannon: "Trivial." Last week damage suits were filed against Bumper Cannon charging negligent driving. Total damage, as estimated by Messrs. Simmons, Wellington & Lindley...
...this might seem trivial! Conservatives might wink a wise eye at that "spirit of discipline and fair play inculcated on the sporting fields of Harvard" which has so delightfully been carried overseas to grace the hitherto depraved Fatherland. The average Harvard man might feel fairly titillated by Hanfstaengl's glowing tribute to "American energy, character, and idealism." Indeed, conservative professors, if not profiteering patriots, might revel in the lovable Ernst's bid for "intellectual, scientific, and human interchange between the U.S. and Germany, without which there can be no true insight, no true understanding, no true progress...