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Industry and trade are in the doldrums, which is partly due to seasonal causes, and partly to more serious factors. Steel and iron, motors and textiles seem distinctly stale. The oil industry seems unable to halt overproduction. Landlords are beginning to wonder whether enough tenants are going to "come back from the shore" this Fall to occupy all the available shops, houses and apartments. Merchants are keeping their stocks down and their hopes up. Enthusiasm, curiously enough, seems confined to agriculture and finance. For once, the wheat farmers and Wall Street are on the same side of the fence...
...author, W. J. Turner, seems to seek the allegorical representation of the idea that only an outcast deserted by the squeamish mob, can be true to his own greatness. But he has smothered it in stale epigrams...
...metropolitan newspapers is the kind of story in which newspaper readers are interested. But the persistent appearance of Messrs. Sinclair, Doheny and Fall in large black headlines arouses one's curiosity as to whether the dailies know after all, what the public wants. Even divorce reports become a trifle stale after the first two weeks; the Teapot Dome has occupied the center of the stage in one guise or another for two months...
...Shubert made a successful entrance among Boston's theatrical entertainments. And this in spite a tuneless score, a glaring lack of "feminine pulchritude", and a few heavy, mediocre scenes. The producer and cast, 'tis true, had a pretty flimsy foundation to build upon. Much of the humour was stale and slapstick, and in not a few cases meager ideas succeeded only through the brilliance in their execution. Yet at other times this was all forgotten in the splendor of some tableau or the diversion of one of the more successful comedy scenes...
Horace Walpole-age could not wither nor custom stale the vigor of his prejudices...