Word: stale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then the smell of stale cigar smoke disturbs the quiet atmosphere of America's most antique daily in an incongruous fashion. Many a college graduate of the mauve decade whose four college years taught him the art of a polished dependence upon tradition must have shuddered last evening when he opened his Transcript to the page which bears the clippings headed School and College. Underneath a large cut of a well-known college president there ran a bold face paragraph which mixed up college men and Pullman smoking compartments with disquieting innuendo. Readers of the more widely circulated journals...
...even so vast a project as Chicago's. He is donating his services and he contemplates the work with a festal excitement which no salary could induce. Architects and designers enjoy world's fairs as spectacular outlets for their creative urge, and this time Chicago will not tolerate a stale display of plaster-of-paris Classicism, bad Byzantine and garbled Gothic. The architecture will be 20th Century in spirit and detail...
Chauve-Souris, internationally applauded Russian "Bat Theatre," has this year gone stale, sterile, incredibly flat...
...letter of Mr. Robert Treat Paine, which appeared in Thursday's issue of the CRIMSON, injects new spice into a discussion which has become stale from too much tasting. Few have been the Alumni Bulletins of the past two years which have not carried some fiery communication from a graduate in regard to the proposed War Memorial Chapel. In contrast to these letters, virtually all of which confined themselves to a debate on the merits of having a new chapel at all, Mr. Paine's recognizes the inevitability of the structure, and raises a question of practical value. It suggests...
...Westminster, Md., Senator Bruce of Maryland bumbled to an audience that Nominee Hoover had "taken numerous drinks with Clarence Darrow, noted criminal lawyer"; that Nominee Curtis had been seen "at Pimlico racetrack with a bottle of liquor in his pocket." The Darrow canard, stale and previously denied (TIME, March 5), was promptly denied again by Lawyer Darrow...