Word: boredome
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Marjorie de Loosey Oelrichs. Mr. Broun admits he has little sympathy for debutantes who get ghosts to help them confess their insincere boredom. He writes: "Surely in a proper finishing school there must be some course on 'How to bare your soul at fifty cents a word...
...dramatic study of adolescent love. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. acts a young medical student, ambitious son of a London doctor, who on a holiday meets an experienced and beautiful woman of light fancy. Back in London she tires of her caprice, and his infatuation increases in direct ratio to her boredom until one night when he finds her with one of her other friends he goes temporarily crazy and strangles her. The irony of this denouement is softened by having the woman recover, the young lover turn back to his former fiancée and the career he had forgotten...
There were discomforts aboard?pro-hibition against smoking because of the inflammable hydrogen which kept the Graf Zeppelin afloat, restricted space for exercise, the petty distraction of cards and parlor games. An indication of the passengers' boredom was their excitement at seeing a pair of whales. After two or three days in Lakehurst the Graf Zeppelin was to return to Germany and thence continue on for a world flight by way of Tokyo, Los Angeles, Lakehurst (again) to Friedrichshafen (again). On the Pacific leg she will fly cautiously near land, north up the Japanese coast, then eastward along the Aleutian...
...Fellows is a farce which might be enjoyed in remote farming sections where boredom sometimes inspires families to exchange husbands and wives. That is the plot of Bed-Fellows. The switch is legally accomplished, but the play's title is, of course, never realized. Such things may happen but you cannot stage them. After much raucous effort at humor and suspense, Bed-Fellows ends where it began, without a single inventive fillip to distinguish it from a score of other mediocrities...
...hair was ash-blond, her figure slim. She talked occasional baby-talk to Sam, tolerated his lovemaking, entertained his friends. Her time was filled with clubs, committees, charities, and bridge; but when Sam sold out his automobile business to a motor corporation, and was temporarily free, she declared her boredom and insisted upon being taken abroad...