Word: trivializes
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...closed, almost symbolically, the Exchange's ''Washington Embassy," a rented mansion from which his predecessor, Richard Whitney, conducted his futile fight against the Securities & Exchange Act. In his own bailiwick President Gay lifted the cloak of surly secrecy which had always surrounded even the most trivial Exchange affairs. He submitted graciously to innumerable interviews. He stumped the land hammering home his simple thesis: the New York Stock Exchange is a market place, nothing more...
What makes this trivial investigation of a painful subject more entertaining than most musicomedies is that it: 1) offers a variation, however slight, on the backstage epic; 2) includes a diversity of subsidiary entertainment features, climaxed by the efforts of Florence Gill as an imitator of chicken noises; 3) offers Patsy Kelly the first chance the cinema has given her to prove that she is probably the most expert specialty comedienne in Hollywood...
...Regretted that the first woman M. P. remains so incurably trivial a headline-snatcher when Lady Astor, showing the neat ankle of a Langhorne of Virginia, introduced the topic of her openwork silk stockings. After publicly regretting that she has to import them from the U. S. and pay a stiff British duty, the Noble Lady was informed by Dr. Edward L. Burgin, Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade, that she can "Buy British" openwork silk stockings...
...this most sensational trial of a humdrum Paris summer the principals were strangely at cross purposes. The prisoner, Miss Joan Warner, hoped to get by with her professionally nude "Slave Dance" and yearned to have it declared Art. The judges frankly considered the case trivial but expected something brilliant from the great French criminal lawyer, Maitre Henry Torres, who appeared for the defense. The prosecutor, scandalously sympathetic with Miss Warner, observed before the trial opened: "It would be a shame to send Joan to prison. She is young and besides she is very pretty. I am not going...
...anonymous information which enabled the researchers to select the 100 most happily wedded pairs, the 100 least happily wedded pairs. These 200 pairs and 100 divorced couples were given the Bernreuter Personality Inventory and the Strong Test of Vocational Interests, consisting in all of 545 questions, some banal, some trivial, some bizarre, but all shrewdly calculated to draw answers constituting in sum a significant mosaic of personality. The investigators then drew six portraits distinguishing the men & women of each of the three groups from the other...