Word: staled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trials during the examinations. The necessity of concentrating on the varsity squad in preparation for these contests has often prevented the coach from devoting the requisite attention to Freshmen and newcomers. Indeed, the result of the intensive early training has often been to make many of the men go stale early in the season, thereby jeopardizing Harvard's chances in the most important intercollegiate games...
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...