Word: trivialize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight devote to reading and passing judgment on the 600 "first-class" manuscripts that come in each week from literary agents and to replying to some 90 letters apiece each day from inquiring, laudatory or abusive readers. It is an old Lorimer custom that no matter how trivial or routine the communication, it must get a personal reply from the editor or one of his associates. The carbons of the replies are then circulated to all the other members of the editorial staff...
Nobody gets very upset over the "Perfect Specimen." Trivial to an unsurpassed degree, none of the leading roles in the picture show any appreciable amount of acting ability. Edward Everett Horton, as Miss Robson's secretary, and boxer Hugh (Woo-Woo!) Herbert are amusing enough. Best line:--Miss Robeson, on being awakened by a lustily crowing cock, cries, "Dismiss the rooster...
...lambic couplets he has attempted to sound that soothing harmony of compassion tinged with soft, self-childing satire so elusive for the reader to hear yet so pleasant when once heard and held in memory. Whether he succeeds without appearing to descend to the prosaic and the trivial depends entirely on the individual reader...
Through his solicitors in London, venerable Statesman David Lloyd George brayed a "very strong objection" to Trivial Fond Records, a book written by Sir Laurence Guillemard, oldtime British Treasury official. The passage deemed likeliest to have touched in Lloyd George the sensitive pride of all flesh: "He woke us all up at the Treasury, worried us to death, trampled on our most sacred feelings. We often sympathized with Mrs. Lloyd George, who is reported after exceptional provocation to have said that the first time she saw her husband he was in the hands of police and that she sometimes wished...
...TIME accept a correction on a trivial statement made in the biography of Harry Bridges (TIME, July 19)-"his wife . . . fell out of a window while hanging out the wash." She was not hanging out the wash, but bringing...