Word: stale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentimentality and hypocrisy; rotarian Big Business and Prosperity. . . . Do you really believe . . . that these awful plays are good; these wretched people happy; these revolting Jews, great leaders and prophets; these decrepit buildings, fine architecture; these dingy slums, new socialist cities; these empty slogans bawled mechanically, a new religion; these stale ideas (superficial in themselves and even then misunderstood), the foundation and hope of the future...
Bottling and casing $ 4.00 Kentucky State tax 1.50 State, county and local taxes .30 Federal stock dividend tax 2.25 Federal whiskey tax 6.00 Storage 2.40 New York Stale tax 3.00 Freight anil handling .91 Delivery .25 Total...
...Maiotis' wheezy engines broke down outside the harbor and took many hours to repair. Then she ran into a heavy storm, was forced to take shelter in the lee of an island. Never a good sailor, Samuel Insull tossed sickishly about on his little freighter reeking of stale oil and garlic and whimpered that shiploads of U. S. pirates were lying in wait to kidnap him. At the last moment the French Government decided to forbid his landing at Djibouti, French Somaliland, chief port of entry for Abyssinia...
Each morning in your editorial columns appear with harmless regularity bits of innocuous criticism concerning University policy on stale and moot points while standing out in bold relief before your very eyes are all the flagrant flaws against which you refuse to act. It is relative to one of these flaws that I send this communication to you: The Eliot Night Lunch. Students are enticed by convenience of location into this subterranean palace where they are told that by a simple signature most marvelous things are produced. The scheme would be a very commendable one if it were...
...More Ladies (by A. E. Thomas; Lee Shubert, producer). Nimbly written around the tried & seldom true formula of a philandering husband who is brought to his senses by a dose of his own medicine, this comedy is compact of witty lines and stale quips, hilarious situations and brummagem tricks. There is the sly, wise grandmother in frumpy clothes (Lucille Watson) who speaks a pure nightclub patois and gets tipsy. There is the joke about flowers with celebrated names planted in the same bed. Some one even gets a chance to remark that Adolf Hitler is "all swelled up with...