Word: trivialize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charming family than to two pieces of bric-a-brac in the living room: a hideous crayon portrait of his day-laborer father and an oversized spittoon. The little comedy, which Song-&-Danceman Eddie Dowling chose for his first Broadway presentation in three years, shows how certain trivial experiences improve the character of Herbert Kalness. When the patrician parents of his daughter's Harvard fiancé dine at his house, his boorish conduct disgraces his family. He sneers openly at good breeding, abuses his visitors because, unlike himself, they failed to blossom from the gutter. The next night...
...reached court, have ever been pressed against Columnist Winchell. Last week, for the first time in his professional career, he found himself confronted by a jury verdict for damages. It was caused not by any peeping into the love lives of the rich or famed but by a trivial paragraph about an all-Jewish beach club which died aborning...
...than three children, or has adequate means for supporting another child." Usually there is no charge for the abortion, or at the most 40 rubles ($20). The operation occupies three to five minutes. Each patient stays in the hospital three days, refrains from work ten more days. Mortality is trivial...
...arrive at the Merrick's country house for a weekend, Leone's parents, Laura (Alice Brady) and grouchy old Augustus (Lionel Barrymore) are drawn into the picture. Laura mistakes Max Lawrence for a man with whom she spent a happy night before her marriage. A gay, trivial, skillfully situated matrimonial comedy derived from last season's play The Vinegar Tree, Should Ladies Behave is most amusing when it shows two of the best dramatic actors in the U. S. cinema spreading their talents thickly upon slapstick scenes. Samples: Lionel Barrymore eating a cold duck with indigestive grunts...
...course credits, in the idea that a college should award its degree on the basis of separate goals achieved, and the achievement recorded. To this conviction is linked an idea incomprehensible to the European, the idea that the college should police the minds of its undergraduates, perpetually making trivial demand upon their time, perpetually demanding that Tuesday, or at least next Tuesday, should make the proper entry on the quality of Monday's effort. For it is very easy to do this, and it is very difficult to frame examinations which index not the acquisition of fact, but the knowledge...