Word: vapid
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...Prince of Wales and won a diving contest staged for him. Once she won a medal by holding a smile longer than other competing actresses. She drives a Chrysler car, dresses in a room mounted on wheels, likes rice pudding, consults fortune tellers. Most of her pictures have been vapid dramas of high life, assigned to her because of her social background: Pleasure Mad, Broken Barriers, His Secretary, The Latest from Paris, Slave of Fashion...
...stalwart young Budapestian, repaired to a clearing in a secluded wood near the city. A friend went with them, carrying a long green baize bag. Soon the clearing echoed with the harsh scrape of steel, the clear ring of blade ion cup hilt. The enraged beauties engaged in no vapid stabbing of the air. Like most able dancers, they had long taken fencing lessons. Panting, with clenched teeth and tousled hair, Mary Radvanny and Sussanne Winghardy skillfully thrust and parried until a well-timed lunge in tierce pinked the Winghardy shoulder...
Fioretta. Inscribed over the stage door of the Earl Carroll Theatre, where passers-by on 50th Street may see it and be impressed, is the legend: "Through these portals pass the most beautiful girls in the world." This vanity of Earl Carroll's is not without some justification: the vapid beauty of his mannequins, who haughtily undulate to the clinking music of gold in the Carroll coffers, is without superior in any professional or amateur congress of pulchritude. Awareness of beauty in women seems to be developed in Showman Carroll to a degree beyond that of any of his competitors...
...three characters are intended as symbols and the play is a fiercely lyrical analysis of horror. But, last week, it sounded vapid and declamatory, and after a few performances closed...
Smart readers began to have qualms when they read the first "Fighting Frankau Editorial": "The incessant toil, the incessant thought which have gone to the making of this 'new paper' . . . have given me joys and pains, compared whereto the joys and pains of mere novel writing seem vapid...