Word: outworn
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...boiled tapioca with pale lavender cornstarch sauce-the Jap colored the food to make it seem tastier than it was. Aged two, Joan could stagger across the deck and yell "goddamned wind" (picked up from the mate). She thereupon graduated from baby clothes to overalls carved from Stitches' outworn dungarees. Her first nightgown was a flour sack which after many washings still proclaimed her ''Pure as drifted snow." One of her daily chores was to haul up water in a canvas bucket and swab down the poop-deck. As she hauled, one morning, a delicate blue...
...trace the complicated development of the nineteenth century. In this period new creative forces were stirring--new ideals arose which sought expression in new forms. The age was weary of revivals, always a sign of creative weakness. It had had enough of academic rules and formulae long since outworn and no longer able to express the contemporary point of view. That the age had something to say is very powerfully shown in such pictures as Van Gogh's "L' Arlesienne", lent by Mr. Adolph Lewisohn; the "Still Life Study of Fruit," lent by Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster...
Merry Andrew. Druggists are notoriously busy and peculiar characters. So fantastic and interesting are their occupations, that, when they attempt to leave their tinted shelves, druggists find themselves drawn back, like outworn reporters, to the charms of their conversational counters. Investigating this novel theme, Lewis Beach (The Goose Hangs High) last week delivered to a giggling audience his history of the successive industry, retirement, and return, not to the grindstone but to the happy pharmacy of one Andrew Aiken, impersonated by plump Walter Connolly, placidly absurd but only mildly funny...
...always caused discussion in connection with education. Shall the executives of educational institutions necessarily be men who have distinguished themselves in their scholastic attainments? This has been the case throughout the history of all organized learning, but it has been challenged frequently as an anachronism based on an outworn tradition. Before our highly complex modern universities had been developed, students naturally gathered about the great teacher for intellectual guidance. Today the situation has been definitely altered. Specialists in certain fields are given the control of large institutions, a control which they either may not be capable of handling...
...Confucius (550-478 B.C.) and long before, this has been so. But last week the kinetic, iconoclastic new Nationalist Government issued a proclamation shattering to Chinese morals. Acts of filial piety were declared to be "no longer meritorious but unworthy," and celibate widows were bidden to eschew the "outworn mandate of mere superstition...