Word: boredome
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...prove a long and eventful series of screen appearances. Perhaps the day will come when newsreel accounts of the daily doings of these five sisters will be as tiresomely commonplace as diving girls at Miami, Fascist youth on parade and rodeos are today. But last week there was no boredom in U. S. cinemansions as Pathe flashed on the screen what it proudly advertised as "Extra! World Scoop! Newsreel Sensation of the Year!" To get these first films of the Dionne quintuplets required bullying by Pathe President Courtland Smith, cajoling by Pathe News Editor Claude R. Collins, many a thousand...
...reeds or shifted their anchorage. One night there was a terrific shindy; next morning the prisoners learned their captors had been hijacked by bandits. The change made little difference to them. As they picked up more of the language they heard many a bloodthirsty threat. Aside from cramped quarters, boredom, vermin, bad food, the hardest thing they had to endure was hair-pulling, nose-and- ear-tweaking. The bandits delighted in calling them names. When asked what was the English for an obscene Chinese epithet, Author Johnson replied: "Parlez vous français?" "They were delighted and they spend their...
...department stores on account of exciting underwear and wax models. If the statement of the producers is true that salacious motion pictures do attract the public, isn't it the fault of the churches in not stiffening the adolescent minds to automatically reject such stuff in boredom in the same way that we automatically ignore the excreta canis in our walks down the street...
...completely misunderstood--the oversharpened cars of the reporter were not quite sharp enough to avoid misstating the substance of his remarks. Not prejudiced against the use of the "lowest form of humor," your reporter conceded to the 400 delegates gathered in Cambridge at least the accomplishment of dispelling the boredom of his Harvard existence for at least one weekend...
...switch in Governor Ely's attitude toward the Gill hearing, from boredom and apparent hostility to a kind of modified and active neutrality must have a very important effect on any assessment of the case. The switch was slight. As the outbursts of Gill's counsel yesterday indicate, it has not placed the whole investigation beyond all suspicion of unfairness. But it has meant this: that the Press, at last a trifle uncertain about the outcome of the affair and therefore about the consequences of its Roman holiday, has resolved to give the Superintendent at least the semblance of justice...