Word: outworn
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Some of the secondary characters, such as music publisher Max Dreyfuss (Charles Coburn), and one of Gershwin's teachers (Albert Basserman), have been carefully reduced to outworn types. In these cases Dreyfuss represents the lure of financial success, and the old teacher stands for true art. Conversely, Papa Gershwin (Morris Carnovsky) has had his personal eccentricities exaggerated to the bursting point. There is no consistency in the incongruity...
Despite the widest spread advance interest since "The Tempest," and despite the return of Robert E. Sherwood and Spencer Tracy after five and 15 year absences respectively. "The Rugged Path" somehow contrives to bring together every known cliche and outworn situation known to the American stage...
...truly believe that the spirit lives, and that the corpse is an outworn tent in which it no longer dwells, why not treat it so? But the Prayer Book still commits it to the ground from which it is supposed to come, where it is to rest until the archangel's trumpet summons it to rise incorruptible. We once heard of a funeral which seems far more Christian. The body was buried-or, we trust, cremated-as soon as possible, with no publicity, and a week or so later a memorial service was held in which the friends...
Thus last week did tiny Lamar (pop- 3,000), prepare to welcome back its most successful native son, Senator Harry S. Truman, and to watch him being notified, in one of the most outworn of U.S. political ceremonies, that he is the Democratic nominee for Vice President. Lamar's 3,000 had at first been incredulous when the celebration was announced. After all, Harry Truman had come back only once in the 56 years since he left Lamar as a four-year-old. But Lamar buckled down, raised $5,000 for expenses. The women of Lamar...
...carried on. " 'When I make up my mind to deliver spuds,' he remarked afterward to Chapman, 'I have no intention of letting a pomme de terre me.' Chapman took no notice." The Retort Discourteous. O'Nolan is in a class by himself in adapting outworn instruments to his journalistic purpose...