Word: boredome
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When he overreached himself and went bankrupt, he headed for Manhattan, made a quick fortune in cigarets. Boredom drove him into the munitions business. In Paris, Ulysses created the armament cartel which did the main work in preparing both sides for the World War. In old age "his soul expanded in its power and goodness." Peacefully dead at 71, he got magnificent funerals in Greece and England, canonization by the Church. In accordance with his last will, he was buried simply in his native Greek village, his enormous fortune split into a thousand bequests...
...happens to bosses and workers when a steel town goes on strike. If sometimes he uses stock characters and stock works, he more often uses bright, biting satire. The audience laughs out loud when the spoiled son and daughter of a steelmaster try to throw off their ill-natured boredom with a tinny song about spooning and crooning, when a college president and his professors shout mealy-mouthed patriotic jingo. There is good, contemptuous laughter behind The Cradle Witt Rock and that laughter gives the play its vigor...
...horseplay connected with an attempt to keep a man in the know from betraying the here's duplicity, and the show gains little by it. The efforts to make him appear mad are scarcely more subtle than the preliminary stealing of his pants. One comes dangerously close to boredom while waiting for the first curtain. The second act looks up considerably, however, and the wiles of the bared bigamist in dodging the gendarmes and the bobbies are cleverly contrived. The hero is able to evade the law, but unable to escape from the dilemma of having two lovely wives...
English A, although possibly a monster of boredom to several hundred fledglings unable to wield adverbs and prepositions, accomplishes this basic purpose. Those who wish to go further than the required course in composition carries them usually take English A-1, and this course presents a problem in teaching for the single reason that it contains men interested in two different kinds of writing...
Ruminating on the boredom of old age, an old man in Elgin, Ill. recently came to the conclusion that many an octogenarian would be better off if he had something to occupy his mind. "Medicine can do little," he declared. "The mind becomes ill while the body remains healthy." Charles Edward Sharp should know what he is talking about. Now 76, he has been one of Elgin's leading physicians for nearly half a century, still has a large & lucrative practice, in addition runs a philanthropic six-cottage sanatorium whose patients are required to pay practically no fees...