Word: umpteenth
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Every so often a student announces the startling fact that European students have no examinations until the end of their final year, and laments the fact that this admirable idea is not carried out at McGill. This surprising revelation becomes less surprising, and in fact unspeakably tedious, after the umpteenth repetition...
...Umpteenth in the current series of romantic-slapstick comedies, "Joy of Living," with Irene Dunne and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is somewhat disappointing mainly because its cast arouses expectations of something better. This does not mean that it is not thoroughly amusing and considerably above the usual comedy run. However, the dialogue is uninspired and labored, and at times merely insipid. Some of the funny situations are drawn out until the last tortured laugh is extorted from unhappy spectators, while other situations are simply not funny. Such a thing is deplorable, for Miss Dunne and Mr. Fairbanks are as engaging...
...sideshows. Most phenomenally popular book of the quinquennium, he would report, was Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse. By 1935 critics who had tried to blink it off as simply a big flash in a shallow pan were opening their eyes wider, slowly admitting that for the umpteenth time Romance was again rearing its tousled head. With such an enormous good companion as Anthony Adverse to make smooth their path, romances everywhere came in on the wings of the morning, set off down the broad highway. In England, Jeffery Farnol's Beltane the Smith, Baroness Orczy...
...attach too much importance to the maintenance of sterling at a particular level. I have in this matter declared the policy of His Majesty's Government many times without succeeding always in convincing people across the sea. However, I'll try once more and say for the umpteenth time that the policy of this government is to maintain the independence of sterling. . . . We have never attempted nor are we attempting now to fix exchange at a given point or maintain it even within a fixed limit of values...
...Census Committee sent word they had the influenza-Washington's Johnson, Pennsylvania's Swick, New York's Jacobstein, Michigan's Clancy and White of Kansas. Wisconsin's Peavey and others were out of town. Without a quorum the committee could not act. For the umpteenth time Reapportionment was postponed...