Word: boredome
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...stood at adjacent points on a Jersey City street awaiting busses for political picnics. The men-of-the-families had paid $2 for Hoover tickets, $2.50 for Smith tickets. The day lengthened. The sun grew hot. The children made friends, played, squealed, quarreled. The men compared tickets, oaths and boredom. No busses, no picnics came to pass. All, angry, went home...
Such a thesis, if tediously expounded a la Bolshevik, might indeed cause hurtful boredom. But as the smart and sprightly Count spurs across Europe, tilting at Nationalisms, he conjures much novelty and wisdom from successive countries with the talisman of sly philosophy. And his spurs, as a gentleman's should, wound not half so often as they stimulate...
...country villa. Here he was reduced to the boorish society of the pot-house-backgammon and trie trac with butcher and furnace-makers replaced learned converse with the intellectuals of Florence. Though he filled much of his time with wine, women, and oaths, he was forced out of sheer boredom to pore long hours over his beloved Latin-history, comedy, philosophy (translated from the Greek)-and set down his own political philosophy (The Prince, The Discourses), his own broad humor (Mandragola...
...Garibaldino. Disgusted with these revolutionists of 1860 another Laurentano, Prince Ippolito, had banished himself for life to a neighboring estate, and manned it with a guard dressed in conspicuously gaudy Bourbon uniform, the joke of the countryside. But his son, Lando, lived luxuriously in Rome, and published, out of boredom, a socialist paper which sympathized from safe distance with laborers in Sicily. An enthusiastic delegation of these laborers, representing half-baked unions called fasci, nevertheless persuaded Lando, against his better cynical judgment, to come to Sicily and co-ordinate revolt...
...apathy and even boredom that the Princeton undergraduate finds in his own problem, conceived alumni style, is completely natural. Nowhere does one find the affairs of the University discussed with that sure freedom that is found at the dinner of the alumnus who is ten years out from Sever Quadrangle. Improvement, planful aspiration, avowed democratic principle--all these have a way ofturning will-o'-the wisp when the builders of the report, who are either too safely ensconced in the best clubs to care about action, or are alumni like the Princeton investigator, decide quite humanly...