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Maudlinity is the keynote of Riffraff. Its situations come out of a can that was stale long before the first tuna was tinned. And it makes no effort to turn to account the genuine picturesqueness of the San Pedro, Calif, docks, where most of Riffraff was shot. Best scene: the finance company reclaiming the allurements of the Tracy-Harlow home...
...Widener for the rest of the day where the air was very stale. Thence as guest to Lowell House and made very merry, and by and by up the River...
...wide around a tree in New London's wildish Riverside Park beside the Thames River. For 28 years Uncle Sam perched morosely in his tree while he and Elmer Kenerson grew old. Even after his job as park superintendent was abolished in 1925, the man took stale meat to the eagle twice every day. Kenerson could put his arm around the bird but whenever anyone else approached, Uncle Sam grew truculent, refused to eat, hopped to a higher limb. Once Kenerson turned down two strangers' offer of $200 for the bird. Next day he found the cage spattered...
...politics, that the cynical Italian gave to the despots of his day. A tedious book, overlong, repetitious, The Politician contains a few hilarious examples of Fourth-of-July oratory, gives the general impression that in its composition an agreeably funny idea has been sacrificed for the sake of a stale parody and a secretly serious purpose...
Three years before, Publisher Hearst had made Ray Long boss of Hearst's International Magazine Co. Two years later, Ray Long announced his retirement from the Hearst organization. Friends, who had often heard tense, febrile Editor Long say that the only thing on earth he feared was "going stale," guessed that 13 years in one job had begun to wear on him. He at once plunged into the book publishing firm of Ray Long & Richard Smith. They had some successes, more failures. Suddenly one day in 1932 Ray Long walked out of his Manhattan office "a couple of jumps...