Word: vapid
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...latter part of 1886 the Lampoon began to degenerate. It began to lose that distinctive quality mentioned so often, which is hard to describe, but which one feels to exist the moment he begins to look through an old issue. The editorials began to be flat and vapid; the jokes harder and harder to see; the bright verse more and more scarce. The double page and then even the full-page pictures disappeared and small society pictures with jokes (?) that would fit any one of them equally well, were substituted instead. Finally, to complete the destruction of its ancient character...
...moonlight and murders, such as our immaturity writes them, are morbid in all their tendencies. We cannot, of course, all be Thackerays, and "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all," with the Muses as with less ethereal petticoats. But a vapid dalliance with literature is demoralizing in the last degree...
...various school journals, the Willistonian is the most readable weekly, the Exonian being vapid, and conveying the idea that it consists chiefly of advertisements. The Notre Dame Scholastic is, on the whole, interesting, though peculiar, and gives the impression that it is not entirely free from censorship. Good taste would seem to us to suggest the omission of brevities that refer to peculiarly sacred subjects, unless the paper aims to be a religious weekly, in which case other of the matter it contains is particularly out of place. We would also suggest that less space be devoted to advertising their...
...Vapid gush of a gushy miss...
...rest is vapid...