Word: boredome
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...utterly devoid of ambition," Virgil Partch once told an admiring visitor. But three years ago, Hollywooder Partch found himself trying to support his wife and child on $18 weekly unemployment relief checks. He had taken part in a strike at the Walt Disney Studios. Eighteen-dollar boredom finally prompted Partch to send a batch of cartoons to Collier's Cartoon Editor Gurney Williams...
German troops, poised along the Atlantic Wall, got a peremptory order to kill their 300,000 tame rabbits, bred during the past year as an escape from boredom and garrison rations. Reason for the slaughter: invasion bombs and shells might turn the cottontails loose, set them to setting off the artfully contrived mine fields and booby traps designed for Allied soldiers...
Died. Humphrey Cobb, 44, author of 1935's best-selling war story (Paths of Glory); of coronary thrombosis; in Port Washington, L.I. His best-seller was his only published novel, and was written out of boredom with his Manhattan advertising job. A terse, heart-rending account of a sadistic French general who ordered his own men decimated after a hopeless attack had failed, it was adapted for the stage, got him a $1,000-a-week job in Hollywood. That also bored him, and at his death he was working for a Manhattan advertising agency...
...wife's father. (Broderick has referred to a boy corespondent in Mrs. Burton's 1926 divorce action.) Grumet also quoted Lonergan as saying that he derived "a certain amount" of satisfaction from his married life but that his separation from his wife was the result of "mutual boredom...
There is no true picture of the religious attitude of soldiers to be gained from such representations-even conceding the truth of pictures and statistics. It is easy enough for soldiers to attend services when there is nothing else to do. I have seen them attend from sheer boredom...