Word: trivialize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large part of a Japanese Ambassador's duties consists of smoothing over trivial incidents which might impair "hands across the sea" relationships. Even before he left for the U. S., the new Ambassador was faced with one of these last week. Prissy delegates to the International Women's Friendship League in Tokyo protested to the police authorities when they learned that 30 lissome Hollywood girl Softball players, Japan-bound for an exhibition series, habitually cavorted about the fields in snug-fitting, thigh-revealing shorts. Police decreed that the girls' shorts must be lengthened to cover the knees...
Stablemates (Metro-GoIdwyn-Mayer) gives Wallace Beery a chance to duplicate, with a few trivial alterations, his famed role in The Champ (1931). In The Champ, Beery was a broken-down plug-ugly who achieved moral and physical regeneration through his desire to justify the adoration of little Jackie Cooper. In Stablemates, he is a dilapidated veterinary surgeon, restored to some degree of selfrespect by the grateful affection of Mickey Rooney and a race horse named Lady...
...scale of local politics, the like of which has seldom been heard since the day of Lincoln Steffens and the muckrakers. On Friday the petition of the Plan E Committee, which under the chairmanship of Dean Landis has obtained over 11,000 signatures, was blocked by the Council on trivial technical ground. Mr. McNamara, president of the body, declared that Cambridge "was not going to be turned into a laboratory of guinea pigs for a lot of theorists" and sat down on his political haunches. Even when the ballot law commission certified the petition of Saturday, Mr. McNamara refused...
...children not to associate with little Jews. On countless shopwindows appeared such inscriptions as "Jewish swine," "Out with the Jews," "Avoid this Jew," "The Jew- Our Sorrow!" "Jew, get out!" Whole streets were roped off while Jewish blocks were searched. More than 1,000 Jews were arrested, often for trivial reasons. Many Jews were sent to concentration camps. Long lines formed at the U. S. and British consulates for visas. By week's end the scourge of anti-Semitism was applied to all Germany by secret-police order...
...Crimson totally incapable of learning from experience? Or are the editors so enamoured of the adage that they take the "unjust" and "unwise" dismissal of two badly needed teachers to be a trivial but irremediable accident...