Word: outworn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Legend had encrusted "Old Mac's" career; few knew the man himself. To all but a tiny circle of intimates, he was a crotchety, bitter old man. "suckled in a creed outworn," passionately loyal to the thinking of an era now as dead as its fringed surreys, gas lamps and stereopticons; an old man whose many hates included tobacco and Jews (tobacco smoke sent him into tantrums; he alone refused to sign a farewell testimonial from the Court to Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis; when Hoover appointed Benjamin Cardozo he reputedly roared: "What! Another Jew?" and ostentatiously rattled a newspaper...
...America," concluded the article in a burst of eloquence, "would be underestimating her own power of rejuvenation, if, by persisting in becoming encrusted in outworn prejudices, by allowing herself to be influenced by foreign suggestions, she should start on a course toward a foreign political goal, fundamentally foreign to her nature as well as being harmful, and one that once already turned out to be detrimental to her interests, one that today would mean that against her own interests she would be betting on the wrong horse...
...long-winded speech when they discovered that he was no longer being funny, but was speaking in deadly earnest. Presumably they booed because his empty rhetoric and talk of not being "too proud to fight" was a stale attempt to blur the complex issues of national policy with outworn moral aphorisms. And many Seniors are today sick and angry because they are being asked to attend an admittedly partisan "preparedness" meeting which will seek to make capital out of Commencement-day idealism...
Inspired as never before, the press screamed in flaming red headlines: "The disorder ... of more than three centuries will be revised. . . . An outworn era is crumbling to dust beneath the marching feet of the German Army!" Pregnant with crusading zeal, Nazi Ideologist Alfred Rosenberg proclaimed: "Germany has become the protector of the endangered and oppressed continent. It is fighting against an unholy division of the old and venerable European continent into dozens of pigmy States. National Socialist Germany, the heart of Central Europe, enters upon its historic rights...