Word: uneventfullness
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Toward the end of a long, uneventful evening at contract bridge, North stretches, gapes, makes off to the kitchen to mix another round. East whispers something to South and West who nod and chuckle. Then East quickly sorts the 13 spades from the deck, stacks it so that every fourth...
None of the many books about Brahms has succeeded in portraying him as other than a stuffy, big-bearded German who, as composers go, led an ascetic, uneventful life and by some freak of nature managed to write some of the world's greatest music. This week in a...
But styles in short stories are changing. Yesterday's vogue, "the story with the snapper at the end," says sharp-eyed Authoress Ferber, seems "strangely old-fashioned and unconvincing now." New styles call for front drive, less road clearance, a sharper-tilted wheel. These eight stories will all do...
Because their two previous fights had been peculiarly uneventful, the crowd in Madison Square Garden for last week's bout between Heavyweight Contenders Ernie Schaaf and Stanley Poreda was one of the smallest of the year. The fight was one of the most exciting. Poreda, a handsome, over-confident...
Cruising had been smooth and uneventful. Then unexpectedly the batteries began to fail. Next the starboard engine failed completely. On one engine, the Nautilus grunted through quiet seas at 8 knots. A gale came up. All night the crippled submarine fought the waves. By morning Sir Hubert decided he had...