Word: boredome
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...Harvard University Register has never been like the Freshman Red Book or the Senior Album, "a thing of beauty and a joy forever", with tooled leather covers, photographs of hundreds of fresh young faces, and a solace in boredom. There is little pleasure in looking up the numbers after the name of your friends to find how many knitted ties they are entitled...
...surely chronic boredom one can't brook...
...Langdon's, or even throwing eggs at the Hessian military police in the hopes of starting a massacre. At any rate the artist of the University Theatre did not see any students near the elm. The picture of Mr. Washington was the best thing of the evening's boredom...
...name of a free discussion of educational problems, no higher result than the training up of the student delegates who attend toward a "future of fair Rotarian godliness"; and he treats it with a lively, slightly vitriolic pen, and the authority of one who has suffered the boredom and sense of fuitility that such meetings induce. Mr. Gibbs makes out an impressive case; but his presentation of it might be more effective still if he were wholly possessed by the Comic Spirit which would preserve his equanimity entire while he looked upon the spectacle of others' absurdity...
...married. When not on their private car they live quietly in one of two residences near Cleveland. Pre-eminent in financial circles, they are unknown quantities in so-called "society." Hostesses have sighed, invited them, received polite regrets, sighed, invited them again. They never accept. Perhaps they fear boredom. Perhaps they are merely preserving vitality...