Word: trivializes
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...James players are not called upon to exercise their histrionic powers to the full this week, for "Judy Drops In", the current offering of the Boston Stock Company, is one of the most trivial pieces that has been put before the theatre-going public this season. Although the play is weak in plot and no more than average in dialogue, the sympathetic acting of the St. James cast makes the result genuinely amusing rather than distinctly mediocre...
Hammond escaped with a trivial injury and will be seen in action again in two or three days. Miller was seen at Soldiers Field yesterday dressed in street clothes. The fact that he was not in the infirmary indicates that his condition is not serious...
...James Ross Campbell. Political observers felt that their fate was to be sealed at the conclusion of the debate on the Anglo-Russian Treaty, scheduled for November. After the vote, they swore by all their gods that the Government had virtually fallen on the Russian issue and what the trivial issue of the dropped edition charge had been seized upon because it was favorable to Liberal and Conservative election interests...
Onus. Who was responsible for calling an election that is generally unpopular with the public? The Laborites declared that it was the Liberals, who, by joining the Conservatives, had deliberately turned them out of office on a trivial issue. The Liberals contend that the Labor Government was to blame, because it refused to "face an impartial inquiry into the circumstances which led to the withdrawal of the prosecution" against Editor Campbell. The Conservatives most heartily concurred with the Liberal contention. The Times of London said...
MacDonald retires gracefully on a trivial matter. Perhaps two weeks more would have brought an issue not so trivial, necessitating a not so graceful retirement. He has called the next election at an unusually early date, and if he can keep the audience applauding, and the Conservatives and Liberals dallying, he may "arise again to speak the epilogue"; and the murmurs will have died away...