Word: trivialize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trivial Thing." With an air of determined rectitude, the Mayor summoned his 38 department chiefs to the City Hall and spoke over their heads to the electorate via the municipal radio station (WNYC). He said in part...
...Senate minority leader and Democratic delegate to the London Conference, proposed to qualify the McKellar resolution by requesting the confidential papers only "if not incompatible with the public interest." Familiar with their contents, he declared: "The whole discussion is a tempest in a teapot. . . . They [the papers] are absolutely trivial and insignificant so far as they reflect any light on the Treaty. ... If they were ever published they would make us appear absolutely ridiculous and they might make some other people ridiculous for withholding them...
...English audience this was the proper time to cry "Hear, hear," in low, carefully modulated tone. With rising tone General Dawes continued: "As American Ambassador I come frequently into contact with certain traveled Britons and Americans who are continual purveyors of the trivial and the irritating in international relationship. They do not seem to have sensed the inevitable consequence of an existing tie of blood upon the permanent and fundamental attitude of the two peoples...
...future lay largely in a debate posted for the following week, on the politically relevant, but imperially trivial matter of reducing Mr. J. H. Thomas' salary. But the question made Premier MacDonald queazy. Two former premiers were to heckle him?Conservative Stanley Baldwin leading the attack, Liberal David Lloyd George reverberating behind, and ambitious Sir Oswald Hooting in consonance...
Most of the testimony was trivial at first-detailed disputes over such campaign cost items as matches, banners, eye shades, cigars, meals, band music, entertainment of Wisconsin news editors at the Kohler plant. Judge Gustav Gehrz grew impatient when the State tried to make a 30? insignium labeled "KOHLER FOR GOVERNOR" into a valuable "tire cover," ruled it was no such thing. Again and again curious heads turned to the courtroom door, hoping to see Philip LaFollette march in, face his rival, give a touch of political drama to the scene. But the curious were disappointed. Shrewd, Brother Phil kept...