Word: vapidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rise and your man suddenly accepts a position as general manager of the chemical factory. You will move up to a small edition of the Ritz in the Social Register section and he will promptly begin staying late at the club. You will catch him having lunch with a vapid vampire and soon he will request a divorce. Then you will go to your father who, fortunately enough, owns the chemical works and tearfully plead for counsel. Your father will advise going to live alone in the bungalow where once you were poor but happy together. Then father will...
Vanity Fair. Mabel Ballin plays " Becky Sharp " with all the vapid fascination of a nurse girl enlisting a park policeman for the evening. Accordingly Goldwyn's eight reel production of Vanity Fair is rather gruesome. One can only hope that Thackeray is sufficiently diverted by his celestial activities to omit a mundane interlude for inspection of the ruin of his novel in the motion picture galleries...
...Federation of Labor will claim credit with the conservative citizen for refusing to "endorse" Russian Bolshevism, but it adopts Sovietism in principle when it pledges its moral support to the striking Boston policemen, puts upon Commissioner Curtis the responsibility for the crimes which that strike precipitated, and in remarkably vapid words declares that the righteous public rebuke of the strike "is but one more sacrifice in the human struggle against autocracy, injustice and wrong, out of which had grown a better and a brighter day for their successors and fellow-workers." Whether or not the Federation "endorses" Lenine and Trotzky...