Word: outworn
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...imagine how some Freshman from a far distant spot must feel when he comes here to sojourn for a time in Stillman during his first month. It would not be conducive to joyful feelings even the most hearty. May I suggest to all those upperclassmen who have not outworn doing a daily good turn that here is a fruitful field of endeavor--a visit to an invalid Freshman would not be unappreciated, even by the most bilish. Charles H. Clark...
...Objection to any work of art because it shows a nude body is an outworn gag, but still good for newspaper copy. Last week Executive Director Harris De Haven Connick of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, strenuously made that objection to four pieces of Exposition sculpture. No publicity seeker, forthright Mr. Connick objected to other pieces as artistically inadequate, in which he was at least partially right...
...hostility of the priest. He beats the sorcerer for his prediction of a baby with a hairy body and a long black tall, and justice is vigorously upheld when the latter's suit for damages is dismissed by the Soviet court because of his attempt to profit from an outworn superstition...
Amid the squalor and duress of Britain's most "depressed area" (the South Wales mining district) a brilliant young physician, Andrew Manson, took his first medi-cal appointment. He scorned the mumbo-jumbo of outworn textbooks, went to the unprofessional lengths of helping dynamite a sewer at dead of night because he knew it responsible for a typhoid epidemic. Again & again in his crusading zeal "never to take anything for granted'' in Medicine he was thwarted by the indifference of senile or mediocre colleagues. An original thesis on the causes of lung infection in miners...
Though pleasantly ridiculous, the play repeats the outworn story of the unappreciated stage aspirant who become the understudy to a temperamental musical comedy actress and finally, when the latter walks out on her produced stars in the opening night performance much to her lover's joy. But in any film of amusement the plot must be ignored. Weakening the bountiful entertainment is the grating voice of languorous Virginia Bruce, who plays the musical comedy star. Among the pieces all of which were written by Cole Porter, "I'm Nuts About You" stands...