Word: trivialities
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...face of the overwhelming demand for jobs among the student body all these objections seem trivial. For the Student Employment Office estimates that from fifty to one hundred students are annually forced to leave College because of inability to meet expenses. And last year almost five hundred men who applied for T. S. E. jobs had to be turned down...
...high stone-walled Chungking compound, the "Gissimo" and "Gissima," as Chungkingites call them, receive hundreds of generals, diplomats, politicians, distinguished foreign journalists. Centre of resistance and focus of command, the compound is also an amusing object of gossip. No act of this remarkable pair is too trivial for discussion all over China: if he flies to Chengtu for two days' rest, it is taken to mean that the Government is moving; if she flies to Hong Kong to have her teeth fixed, it is rumored that China will borrow ?25,000,000 from Britain...
...this Friday; that immoral pastimes such as the dance shall be indulged in; that wild revelry shall shriek through hallowed halls until the first vestiges of dawn. In other words, in an effort to laugh down the sinister smirk of finals, Leverett House is throwing a dance. For some trivial sum, you will be able to prance and dance to the music of Kent Bartlett and watch a smooth, suave exhibition of what should be (but ain't) done on the dance floor...
Attending a girls' boarding school, Claudine is obsessed by a jealously possessive love for one of her women teachers. At the most trivial provocation she flings herself from hysterical joy into psychopathic outbursts of grief. That these are the natural symptons of budding love, is pounded into the wincing spectator with morbid persistence...
...know one is supposed to feel pretty grim perched precariously on a raft in the middle of the Atlantic, but I didn't. I have seldom felt better. I suppose the realisation that one wasn't dead was such an inexpressible relief that anything else seemed trivial by comparison. I felt rather like one does on coming to after laughing gas; I had the giggles...