Word: stale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the character of Mr. McGraw and from the representative body of men which constitute the jury for the 1927 awards, the significance of the Bok fund in the commercial world may be seen. Even those who delight in the somewhat stale pleasure of Babbitt-baiting cannot deny that economic solidity is necessary to cultural progress and that the high standards by which that solidity is maintained are worthy of perpetuation by competition...
...result, the stories are good stories. The circus people love and hate, give and steal, swear and sing with inflections nearly as much their own as Mr. Tully's. If the real Moss-Haired girl, half Swedish, quarter Indian and quarter Irish, did not actually wash her hair in stale beer and herbs, or if she was not the freak of virtue that Mr. Tully has made her, there was surely enough virtue and stale beer about her to make exaggeration more permissible than understatement. If the blood and thunder seem as pat as they are plentiful in "Hey Rube...
...education in The Goose-Step. But it is eight years since he has published a novel. The appearance of one* this summer might have passed unnoticed - for Sinclair Lewis and others have long since so improved upon the Sinclair journalese that what once seemed striking is now stale as War news. But some policemen in Boston found passages in the book which made them feel it should be suppressed. Recalling H. L. Mencken's coup with "Hatrack" in the American Mercury under similar circumstances, Mr. Sinclair hurried off to Boston, imitated the Mencken tactics of selling his contraband publicly...
...Premier Baldwin hammered home these revelations, not seeming quite to realize that they were only "proving" the sort of thing which most British and U. S. businessmen have unshakably believed about the Soviets for half a decade. There was nothing new, and nothing especially terrifying. How then were these stale "proofs" worthy to justify the new and drastic course of breaking off relations...
...like a true Daughter of the American Revolution and granddaughter of the Civil War. "The descendants of the men who drove the British from this country do not relish this lack of respect toward the dignity of the American Nation." Literary, she paraphrased Shakespeare: "Time cannot wither nor custom stale the ineptitude of many British Ambassadors to the United States...