Word: stale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Congressman William Radford Coyle of Pennsylvania cracked a joke of which the theme promises to be stale indeed before the 72nd House is organized. Mr. Coyle was traveling from San Francisco to San Diego. At first he planned to go by airplane. Then, cautiously, he took a train instead. His reason: "I couldn't run any risks, as I am one of the two Republicans who hold the balance of power in the House...
...periodicals did more. The Chicago Tribune deserves some credit, certainly more than the Ladies' Home Journal, but has claimed, and had given it, more than the facts warrant. All it did was to publish on the 5th and 6th all it could get at the time; it was stale news after that. The fact is The Journal of the American Medical Association deserves all the credit for giving the "staggering blow" to the insane method of celebrating independence. It attacked the problem in the only scientific way. It waited the necessary time to get the end results; the number...
Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra was censured by many last week for ousting nine of his players. FourClarinetist Paul Alemann, Horn-player Otto Henneberg, Violinist Marius Thor, Oboeist Edward Raho?had been with the orchestra from 18 to 26 years. Probable reason for their dismissal: too old, stale...
...uncongenial temperament and tastes will be forced to eat and live together under the admonitory eyes of resident members of the faculty; in short, that the new dispensation will destroy the freedom as well as the landmarks of the old social system and substitute therefore something stereotyped and stale on an English model unfitted for the American scene...
...perhaps for the astute Vagabond reader this is all stale news, or perhaps he has broken his glasses and would prefer just to listen. If such is the case, there follows a list of subjects which promise to repay even the trouble of getting up early on Saturday morning...