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...grounds of "moral turpitude" growing out of some old charges of corruption while he was governor of North Dakota. He has since made several Senators regret their votes to seat him. A lone wolf, incapable of cooperation, 63-year-old Isolationist Langer has probably introduced more trivial bills than any other Senator, once proposed that the U.S. withhold the $3,750,000,000 loan from Britain and use the money to provide urinalysis for U.S. citizens...
...Beyond the boundaries of one's living working knowledge," Conant insisted, "factual information is trivial and ephemeral, (although) it may be useful as a guide to communication with contemporaries on s superficial basis...
...great packager" who tricks up boxes and labels, Designer Loewy lures U.S. consumers into buying more soap, lard, perfume and hair oils. If he did nothing more than such trivial things, consumers might well wonder what benefit, if any, they get from his work. But he also works just as hard making all manner of things better and more usable. His new vacuum cleaner (Singer) is the first which is designed to be hung up flat against a closet wall. Foley Bros, department store, in Houston, was the first department store designed so that a shopper could walk through...
...hazy film of satire, or at any rate of spoofing, hangs over Yes, M'Lord. But in general Playwright Home seems to have done his best to make everything as inconsequential as possible. The play's weakness is not so much that it is trivial, as that it grows tiresome; its scenes are all played twice, including some (like Tony's with the parlormaid) that shouldn't be played at all. But there are compensations: some bright nonsensical chatter, some skillful British acting. As the butler. George Curzon. though effective, has himself rather too good...
Form-conscious Director Walsh can set up a trivial shot of gangsters listening to a car radio in a windswept mountain lideout, and make grey weather, the texture of trees and the vitality of the figures add up to visual pleasure. An unaffected director of home and bedroom scenes, he even manages, without bathos or leer, to jet away with a shot of Cagney sitting on lis mother...