Word: boredome
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...these four presentations we find a bit of history in the making told through the lives of four of the greats. Mr. Maurois is particularly witty in his new biography, one of the best that he has turned out to date. Mr. Belloc has successfully evaded dullness and boredom in his tale of King Charles, and the reader will find him inspiring and enjoyable throughout. Mr. Linklater presents Queen Mary in all of her glory, with all of the activities carefully recorded. It's minus hooey, and is straight from the shoulder. Accurate historical facts and sound reasoning evolve into...
Honky tonks have been treated so exhaustively in the cinema since The Barker that the first squeak of a calliope now sounds like a warning signal of boredom to come. Even a blatant performance by Actress Bow, in the manner of a juvenile Mae West, and an ending which shows her wriggling in the midway of a Century of Progress, fail to prevent Hoopla from seeming obsolete...
...Boston, the play is on the whole amusing. It creates the kind of enjoyable boredom which comes from the feeling that this thing which has such publicity and attention isn't really so far behind your own creative...
...marriage of an intelligent night club hostess to a wealthy ne'er-do-well. Abby Fane (Carole Lombard) marries Roderick Deane (Gene Raymond) with a very clear idea of what his family's reaction will be. In the course of a prolonged honeymoon, she acquires culture, fashionable boredom, a suspicion that her husband is more stupid than she thought at first. He enjoys being sponged on by his friends, particularly approves of a languid professional punster named Harold Sigrift (Monroe Owsley). Abby badgers Roderick into going to work for his father's firm. When he retires, humiliated...
Author Novello, an assiduous London partygoer, has accurately noted many a curio of London theatrical parties. Present at this one are two celebrities: famed Mrs. Patrick Campbell as a famed "Mrs. MacDonald," and able Cecilia ("Cissie") Loftus. A Party projects such a party completely, including onlookers' boredom and painted embarrassment for the participants...