Word: trivia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guedalla and Strachey, devoting much space to contemporary modes and fashions, interspersing brisk epigrammatic surveys of political movements, quoting newspapers, hotel menus indiscriminately, in the effort to keep not only his subject but his background alive in the reader's mind. The method adds sparkle but leads to trivia (example: Moore's "duel" with the Reviewer Jeffrey which, interrupted by the police, ended in Bow Street station, and gave rise to malicious rumors that the pistols hadn't been loaded anyway...
...public's impression that FTC is chiefly concerned with misnamed "Army & Navy" stores, imaginative cosmetic makers and candy manufacturers who use lottery devices to lure hungry urchins. The vast majority of FTC cases come under the elastic heading "unfair competition," a term which naturally leads it into the trivia of sharp and shady business practice. Anyone may complain to FTC, and sometimes FTC itself takes the initiative. After a preliminary investigation, the FTC may issue a formal complaint against the offender, giving him 20 days to reply. Then FTC holds hearings, comes to a decision...
...Post Office, the Marmola makers went in for national distribution through retail stores. FTC challenged Marmola's advertising but the Supreme Court held that FTC was not set up for the purpose of "preserving the business of one knave from the unfair competition of another." Typical of FTC trivia last week were cease-&-desist orders against: 1) Coolerator Co. of Duluth, Minn, (iceboxes ) for offensive advertising including disparaging observations on electric refrigerators; 2) Tolpin Studios, Inc.. of Chicago for using the word "Limoges" on china which did not come from Limoges. France; and 3) Strongman Robert C. Hoffman...
...daring escapes and thus inspired Conan Doyle, Poe, Hugo, Balzac and Gaboriau, Superintendent Cornish seldom refers to his personal career and accomplishments, writes of plodding, methodical, routine work unlikely to fire any man of letters. Always conscious of the elaborate organization needed to collect the countless items of trivia used in building up a case, Cornish gives himself and other super-sleuths no more credit than plain constables or voluntary informants, writes as much of murders that were never solved as of those that were. The work of running down false clues was as important and tedious as the more...
...hair, takes a job on his newspaper, maneuvers him out on her father's yacht so she can ridicule him to her friends. Suddenly she decides she loves him. Designed for second grade theatres and double feature programs, The Hell Cat is better entertainment than most Hollywood trivia of its class...