Word: boredome
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...perform tricks of magic. The Queen (Mary Boland) yearns for the handsome biceps of Charles Rausmiller, the cinema's Mowgli. The Prince and Princess yearn respectively for a night-club dancer and an itinerant playwright. On the eve of the King's jubilee, the pressure of boredom sends them all off to satisfy their various yearnings...
...glances. There were immaculate dress shirts, and there was the Vagabond's. There were laughing faces, and cracking smiles. There were great cascading bouquets, there were wall flowers and pansies. There were tinkling glasses and the dull thud of a bass drum. There were broken hearts, there was the boredom of a thousand. There was a moonlite terrace, there were also chaperons. There were long embrassing conversations; there were short embracing silences. There were those who cut in; there were those who, most unfortunately, did not. There was an evening mist; there were missed chances. There were scrambled eggs; there...
...dump heap of wrecked automobiles bulking large in his impressions. He saw no cedars on Lebanon, was bored by the Syrian desert, slept soundly in the wilderness while his companions complained that the howling of jackals kept them awake. But at Baalbek Traveler Balfour's up-to-date boredom crumbled as he brooded over the temples of the past, felt his heart beat more rapidly as he awakened to the enchantment of the legendary cities of the East...
Last week the Senate Committee, after four weeks of chasing marsh lights, disgustedly called off its investigation for good. President Hutchins, who had sat through its hearings in blank boredom, calmly went off about his business. Next week the University will present a series of public lectures by Soviet Ambassador Alexander Troyanovsky and two of his countrymen on "The Soviet Union and World-Problems...
...indicates clearly the gap between European and American theories of education. In the former it is up to the instructor to stimulate the student. We Americans have too long labored under the delusion that the privilege of taking a course is such as to compensate a student for any boredom resulting from men unaccustomed to public speaking. Only when we recognize that lecturing is one of the most important aspects of public speaking will the lecture system achieve its due position in American education...