Word: trivially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Author Powell speaks on page 6 of Aunt Jule's "black hair piled in sleek coils" and on page 191 of Aunt Jule remembering "her hair, golden like Linda's . . ." but only people who read books in bed instead of on the subway will notice such trivial but important discrepancies...
...seems a shame to waste a fine actress such as Blanche Yurka on such a trivial play. Those who saw her in "The Wild Duck" or in "Flamlet" with John Barrymore, know her worth. In the piece at hand she plays the mother, and needless to say does an excellent bit. But it is a far from suitable part. The rest of the cast is passable, the playing of the son Juan by Mervin Williams, and the portrayal of the red-hot Nubi by Suzanne Caubaye being most worthy of mention...
...Martin Johnson,† he took of African mammals at their private affairs. Of lesser importance were the rare white rhinoceros and the more common water buck which he killed so that he might give them to the Natural History Museum at Rochester. N. Y. Those will be trivial gifts to the community which he has already endowed with a theatre, a school of music, a philharmonic orchestra (it has just finished its fifth season), and, source of all, an industry...
...nothing is too trivial for him. In Cincinnati a family was in a stew over the naming of a puppy. In stepped Mr. Fixit (David Austin) of the Cincinnati Post and averted a domestic crisis by naming the puppy "Fixit...
...sensitiveness to words. It can be asserted, with some justice, that, possessing these qualifications, no one could help writing a good book about King Christophe. Author John Vandercook, in a day when too many authors with abilities insufficient for their task attempt to decorate matters which are trite or trivial, deserves applause for choosing a superlative subject for human and highly spectacular biography...