Word: drivel
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...costs to a light drizzle. As almost all shows found it harder to get to Broadway, so the doubtful ones found it harder to linger there until the public could judge them. But it was not wholly a matter for lamentation; rare this season were those exhibits of unutterable drivel that had once turned up every week...
...secret documents from his desk and pass them to the Russian ambassador was irrelevant in 1950; Strachey was probably just as good a "security risk" (in the cops & robbers sense) as anybody else. The important question was whether a man who can write (and apparently still believes) such drivel about Soviet Russia has any business being Britain's War Minister at a time when all the West (including the capitalistic societies which Strachey so openly hates) is fighting for its life. To give Strachey his present job was not so much a "security risk" as it was evidence...
...huckster tactics ("Kills Colds in Hours!", "Safe Even for Children") now being used to peddle anti-histaminic "cold cures." Sales of the drugs in 1950 may reach $100 million, it is estimated-"a plum for those who want to pluck it... The possibilities for exploitation seem almost unlimited. Drivel such as some of the [advertising] pleas for over-the-counter anti-histaminics should not be thrust on the American public. There is a limit to what the public should be asked to swallow...