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...disgusted by the sickly romantic breed of best sellers. "Mein Gott!" he belched. (This was way back before Prohibition.) "I shall write a book--oh, such a book." He has. It gripes the romanticists, it wearies the amoral. Mr. Dreiser has forgotten nothing; he has taken a "weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable" hero (the big gun, Willie Shakspere spouted all those adjectives) and put him through hours and hours of representative paces...
...Woman to Another, in 1919 Service and Sacrifice, and in 1921 a biography, My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt. Indeed she has always been a devoted admirer of her brother, saying that if George Washington was the father of his country, her brother was the brother of his country. Age cannot stale her strenuosity of life...
...VORTEX?England's sons and daughters gone a little stale in the ceaseless search for idle pleasure...
...department store is a task the grue- someness of. which brings about in normal people one of two reac- tions. Some long to return next day with a dynamiting crew and a trench mortar to raze to the ground and destroy utterly the madhouse of raucous voices, fetid air, stale perfumes; the shouldering, stupid, perspiring women who just want to know "how much this is"; clerks who indicate, by a sad shake of the head, that the English language is a closed book to them. Other customers, less bloody-minded, merely dream of saying to the cashier when they...
...need this minority report occasion much surprise. A revue which originally was far from the best of the series, as the years pass by finds its jokes becoming stale, its songs worn out, its best dances and comedians gone on to newer things. The result is prettly likely to be some such flaccid exhibition as that which is now holding forth on the Majestic stage...