Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...availed themselves of the opportunity to hear Dr. Allen speak on municipal reform in the Union last evening. Those who were fortunate enough to be present heard a frank and sincere statement of what can be done practically to solve the burning municipal problem. There was no theory, no meaningless generalizations; simply a straightforward talk from a man, who, not content with the conclusion that municipal government is a failure, is working from the bottom up, by determining the defects that make possible political corruption in our cities...
...hits of the show. B. Moore '08 as the anarchist, marred what was otherwise a clever burlesque of the villain of melodrama by continual overemphasis. He is potentially the best actor in the cast, but fails to "arrive" on account of such faults as a noisy and meaningless spatting of his hands and a reluctance to let go of his consonants. F. M. Gunther '07 proved himself worthy of the better acting chance furnished in the burlesque, "The Goirl of the Golden Pest," by his not too emphatic satire of the matinee idol. It was a piece of mock heroics...
...dull heart of the meaningless stoic...
...Alas," by C.G.L., is well named; it is a series of meaningless and trivial words, and an unfortunate blot on an otherwise good number...
...Solness. It is incoherent and is, throughout, illogical, almost trivial. The crack in the wall, designedly neglected to cause the death of two children and destroy the happiness of half a dozen people, seems too small a peg on which to hang such tragic events. The abrupt and meaningless transition, in the scene between Hilda and Solness in the first act, from church steeples to the kingdom of youth, and back again, is worthy of the veriest tyro. But in the expression of subtle thoughts and emotions and in shades of feeling so delicate we cannot define them in ourselves...