Word: rehashes
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...attempt of the Germans to rehash wartime bitterness is not altogether prompted by the desire for moral vindication. If they could prove themselves innocent, the whole basis of the Versailles treaty would fall through. As a sop to Wilsonian idealism, Germany was forced to pay reparations and give up colonies not as the price of defeat but as punishment for starting...
...score is at 'times inconsequential, particularly in the case of such a rehash as the "Spanish Juanita", but it contains two lyrics that are very delightful indeed, Lovable You" and "Baby Blue" have not been glorifying the American phonograph so long that they have become as wearisome as the tunes of a year old Follies. These two songs are refreshing enough to justify the existence of the show, but they are not forced to stand alone. Miss Irene Dunne, who has yet to acquire a New York reputation and a forced manner, is young and exquisitely attractive...
...stuff!" the Babylonian reviewers must have said, when the Book of Genesis appeared in their bookstalls. To them the Hebrew Story of Mankind was nothing more than the rehash of an old Sumerian legend which they had learned in their cradles, a sort of Macbeth-out-of-Holinshed affair, lacking even the frankness to acknowledge its source...
...last piece in the number is a weak thing to our minds. The dialogue is decidedly reminiscent, in fact, it is simply a rehash of trashy plays and novels of English life. The hero poses as another Beau Brummel and talks of shopkeepers 'who ought to feel proud of his patronage. The good valet who pays his master's debts out of his savings, and the goodness of his heart, him we have met before. And the sketch is not improved by its tame tragic ending...