Most loobloid, but most sweet! The flattery of the fond and doting parent. (See Culp.)
My after-dinner speech was lame,
No gift of gab is mine;
The chairman praised me, all the same,
He said my talk was fine.
I had been terrified, and I
Made blunders that were frightful;
The chairman lied—but what’s a lie?
His looblum was delightful!
Ma-chiz´zlum, n. 1. A thinly disguised boredom. 2. A disappointing spectacle. 3. The apotheosis of the obvious.
Ma-chiz´zle, v. 1. To attempt unsuccessfully to please. 2. To try too hard to like something.
Pageants, processions and picnics are all machizzlums; for well you know before they start, that boredom shall be yours. Why does one stand jammed, crowded, uncomfortable, peering over bobbing heads at men in curious costumes marching by? Why endure the long waits of the machizzlum? After it is over, one wonders why he has just consented to be machizzled.
Almost every motion picture show is a machizzlum to sane-brained folk. So is watching the election returns, or an automobile race where there are no accidents, or a partial eclipse of the moon.
Do you call upon a belle? Do you try to converse with the “popular” man? Surely you will be machizzled. Don’t try to read the book that has been too widely praised; what everyone likes, is sure to be a machizzlum. (See Ovotch.)
The easiest way to be machizzled, is to fall in love with an actress.
The young, young girl smirks and smiles and blushing, says: “O Mr. Poet, tell me, when did you first find you had this power?” But to the less sentimental herd, the great machizzlum is to be introduced to a celebrity. (See Yowf.)