Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Except for a couple of family quarrels in which the outside world has not the faintest interest, another bogus football season now has run its counterfeit course here in New England. . . The shabby gentility of Harvard and Yale will play their meaningless little game to decide the championship of the Thwarted Three." November...
...Washington Memorandum does not suggest stories; it tries to illuminate them. It gives the intimate background of certain events that would be meaningless otherwise, offers guidance from other sources on difficult stories, makes cautious predictions (giving reasons) of events to come. It notes changes in the attitudes and appearance of important Government officials, passes on significant scraps of personal conversations, occasionally deals in the things people say at cocktail parties, which are sometimes more revealing than the utterances of a Cabinet member...
...show, "Winged Victory," which he turned out during the war. It is not a success. Within a certain limited scope Hart is almost incapable of writing a bad line; the plot crisis of "Christopher Blake" is both believable and original--in the sense that it has not been rendered meaningless by countless Hollywood pot-boilings; and the acting is remarkably good throughout the large cast. All of which makes the failure of the play particularly unfortunate, for what ails it cannot be remedied in the traditional method of the Boston try-out: by re-writing lines here, and patching...
...second act is in a different tone entirely. Here Adam and his disciple. Alter Ego, meet their fate at the hands of their creations. And here the Capeks lose their sense of satire and even of drama and let their play degenerate into a mass of obscure symbolism and meaningless, unmotivated action...
Many a grower, who feared that a bad crash in cotton might still be ahead, began mumbling ephus-iphus-ophus, a meaningless phrase that Southern crapshooters use while making a critical roll. Many a worried millowner and converter, hedging to protect heavy inventories of high-priced cotton, helped cotton down by feverishly selling futures...