Word: stale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glad; every jaw laughs and every tooth is uncovered." From a poet 20 centuries before Christ: ."Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that hath not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which hath grown stale, which men of old have spoken...
Four dozen ten-inch sausages will be consumed in the current Dramatic Club production, "cannibal Carnival." High-grade frankforts will be eaten, while poor-grade dogs will be thrown. Long loaves of stale French bread with a few fresh loaves interspersed will supplement the degmeat...
...count but these were able to elect only five Governors, seven Senators, 89 Congressmen. It has no patronage to speak of. In place of able Mr. Farley it has brash Mr. Hamilton, whose talents, whatever they may be, have not had a chance to develop in the atmosphere of stale controversy which has surrounded him since 1936. One more thing which the G. O. P. has and the Democrats have not is a Committee of 200 to draw up a Program. Organized last autumn to appease Mr. Hoover, whose scheme of a mid-term convention was declined, the Committee...
...TIME'S reviewer- and after using up most of one of your valuable pages printing a synopsis, he says I tried to "make these terrors more oppressive by putting hackneyed remarks in the mouths of the characters that robbed the book of authority. . . ." He also said something about stale jokes...
with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper . . . Usura rusteth the chisel It rusteth the craft and the craftsman It gnaweth the thread in the loom None learneth to weave gold in her pattern ; Azure hath a canker by usura; cramoisi...