Word: boredome
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...produced the present unsatisfactory situation, it has been continued solely through inertia. After the first disagreeable shock of novelty has worn off, tutors will find familiarity not unpleasant, and a more intimate knowledge of student thought and problems an invaluable aid in their work. The chimerae of embarrassment or boredom should not cause a device as expensive as the resident tutor to fall in its fundamental purpose...
...there. Not being considered at first an enemy alien herself, she made a trip to Rome and besieged the authorities in behalf of her harmless husband (a painter). Sitting in anterooms, waiting for audiences, she read most of Tacitus. Unsuccessful, she returned to the sirocco, fleas, dirt and picturesque boredom of Sardinia. Like all Northerners with noses she was chiefly impressed by the smell: "A little rotten seaweed and fish, a great deal of dirt, tomatoes and paprikas frying in oil, sardines roasting over charcoal fires, garlic, overripe figs, grapemust. tar and pitch from the boats, cheap Virginia tobacco, richly...
...Many a "lame duck" remains in the capital long after his defeat because female members of his household, enchanted with Washington society, refuse to move back to the boredom of their home community. *Nevertheless, last week the Garners moved into more pretentious quarters on the seventh floor of the Washington Hotel, facing the Treasury. Said he: "We're home lovers and we like to stay in the place where we know everybody from the bellhops to the manager...
...sunlight of a clear, biting November day showed the air of the class-room in Sever to be a bit dustier, the walls a bit dingier, the benches a bit more battle-scarred than could have been suspected in the morning half-light. The instructor listened with a faint boredom to the halting translation which mangled one of the better odes of Horace, and from time to time made impatient corrections in the well-modulated clipped syllables which only an Englishman can acquire from Oxford. As he turned the pages with his pale fingers he wondered vaguely what sort...
...Heinz to the Nudist colony at Himmelheim, with Count Ferdinand to Venice. Sold to Tycoon Constantine, she yachted comfortably to Smyrna just in time to meet the pillaging Turkish army. It looked then as if she might have to spend the rest of her life in a harem, but boredom, not shame, helped her to escape, with the help of a pure-minded U. S. sanitary engineer. Finally just a year late, she reached north Oxford at last. Aunt Ermyntrude was not at all upset, was still expecting her. Without once calling a spade a spade, Author Laver manages...