Word: staled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mars, Iowa, Western Union College got tired of the stale jokes, vexing confusions and crossed wires, after 48 years changed its name to Westmar College...
Mixed with this slim, fable-like plot is an excruciating amalgam of bombast, sex, and stale army jokes. The bombast concerns various theories of life and love. The soldier's jokes got like this: "Now that the war is love we're making pottery." The sex involves the two principals, who remove layers of their clothes at intervals and kiss each other at length. One young observer was heard to remark: "Two people are enjoying themselves, anyway...
...been no improvement in movies since the old days. . . . They have not improved in stories. I don't know that they've improved in anything. What the modern movie lacks is beauty . . . they have forgotten movement in the moving picture-it's all still and stale...
...Bolles. "It's all right by me if they train thirteen months a year," he observed drily. "If, they get a kick out of it, more power to them, but you can only train so long before you reach a physical peak, and after that the chances of going stale are that much greater...
...brief few hours Saturday in one of those up-stairs rooms. William Green made his first appearance before any political convention, on the same platform with Walter Reuther at that; Reuther's biting oratory forced this caricature of an oligarch to struggle hard, through fumbling fighting improvisations upon the stale prepared text, for the most "militant" declaration at unionism's dark hour. Labor moguls and a troupe of politicians on the way up typitied by Mayor Hubert Humphrey of Minneapolis and City Council President George Edwards of Detroit provided for ADA the new aspect of sleeves-rolled-up savvy...