Word: trivialize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lords: ¶ Subjected the present National Government to its first defeat in the House of Lords by adopting, 32-to-29, a trivial amendment to the Education Bill opposed by His Majesty's Government but sponsored by the Most Reverend Father Cosmo Gordon Lang. His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England...
About the Hindenburg's trip there was nothing scientifically notable except that it inaugurated the first regular North Atlantic air service, made a record dirigible crossing (61 hr., 38 min.). Half a dozen special newspaper correspondents aboard, however, recorded reams of trivial happenings. Most of the 51 passengers admitted they had difficulty remembering they were in the air, so steady was the motion, so familiar were the accommodations to steamship travelers. Dr. Hugo Eckener had shouted: "Auf, Schiff!" at Friedrichshafen at 9 p.m. An hour later practically all passengers had tired of peering at the lights of Germany, adjourned...
...trial at Governors Island last week Captain Fleischer dismissed all three accusations as "trivial." His chief counsel, white-mopped, beetling-browed Samuel Tilden Ansell, whose $500,000 libel suit against Senator Huey Pierce Long (TIME, April 24, 1933) was settled by the latter's assassination, asked for a postponement until President Roosevelt answered his protest against the "prejudicial attitude of the court." The court denied the request. The President sent no reply...
Last week Miss Hellman's adaptation of her own play made the perturbation of the Hays organization look as silly as it made Producer Goldwyn look shrewd. In the screen version the rumor charges one of the teachers with normal rather than abnormal misbehavior. This trivial change strengthens rather than weakens the story, makes it entirely fit for the consumption of all cinemaddicts with the most rudimentary knowledge of the facts of life. Brilliantly directed by William Wyler and acted by an admirable cast, These Three remains on the screen what The Children's Hour...
...Story of Louis Pasteur" and "The Voice of Bugle Ann" are showing this week at the Paramount and Fenway. Both are drawn from the realm of fact: the first from the career of a courageous ploneer; the second from a trivial homicide in the mountains of Missouri...