Word: boredome
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Alexander Woollcott: "One can sit through without boredom and leave without cheering...
...Willard, Floyd Johnson, Firpo and Jack McAuliffe II, in the same ring on May 12 at the Yankee Stadium, and I don't ask for a penny. But if I stop all of them I want a match with Dempsey." It is not likely that Mr. Wills' boredom with hogsheads will have much effect on the attitude of his contemporaries. Besides being a substantial citizen between fights he is even more substantial in the ring. It is the generally accepted opinion that he is the only man in the game who can stand at Dempsey's level...
...great enthusiasm, while Mr. Bodansky, with his admirable " Friends of Music " organization, performs the composer's smaller orchestral and choral pieces with devoted artistry. It is difficult to evaluate the Mahler works without many hearings. On first impression, they are bad, shapeless, strident, vulgar, but after listening in boredom for half an hour you get a vague sense of the prodigious. Certainly you feel a tremendous earnestness. Perhaps it is an earnestness without talent. Perhaps there may be a deeper talent in the music. Two new figures are prominent in the New York musical world- Barbara Kemp and Michael...
...general principle of selection in such a case as this seems, in any event, to be a selection of the books that it would take a desert island and a lifetime of boredom to make you read. A much fairer test-in many respects-would be to ask the jaded commuter what he would choose to read...
...answer was firm and impartial, "No, guy; these seats are taken (Since the two exceptions were bald headed, they had "Sir" substituted for "guy"). After Professor Rand had got well underway, the youth arose, gazed about, saw his friends had not arrived, sighed heavily, and beckoned with boredom to two fair maids who had just come in. Now it might seem a little rough on those who had arrived early and were rejected, but who am I to complain? Instead of a professor a charming young damsel, albeit her nose was powdered. And the thoughtful youth enjoyed the lecture...