Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plate of Literary Anti-pasto, Some Stale...
...Significance. Geranium trees and alabaster cups?pickled walnuts and plovers' eggs?Darius Milhaud and Ouida?a patchwork of curious names, objects, personages, vices?a plate of literary antipasto, some pleasant, some a little stale. Somewhat affected, somewhat precious, quite amusing, though not nearly as delightful as Peter Whiffle, The Blind Bow-Boy reviews a facile display of intellectual fireworks from under the lacquered eyelids of a superficial sophistication. The fireworks squib out, the performance is over. There were too many pinwheels near the close, perhaps, and the shadow of Ronald Firbank had a way of straying across the scene...
...Sainthood of Marcus Aurelius, which is unstoicly ecstatic; a reconciliation of Judaism to European culture; a discussion of Miracle in the Old Testament; Ita de Trinitate Sentiat, which means that one is a trinitarian because one feels it; an article showing that Theologue Butler has not grown stale; contributions by Prof. Estlin Carpenter and Sir Oliver Lodge...
...come back " of Jess Willard, the shutting out of the Giants by decrepit, old Babe Adams, and a few other prodigies of belligerent age have featured sufficiently in newspaper philosophizings to make it stale and unprofitable to dwell upon any subject in which a man mocks at his years and refuses to succumb to them. However, here is an instance of hale antiquity found in a world quite different from that of sports. A small musical item from Connecticut relates that one of the tenors with an opera troupe playing in Stamford is Giuseppe Agostini. Now, Agostini...
...talk yesterday, is to make it possible for each student to find a subject which interests him, and which he can follow out with enthusiasm. No work, without that element of personal interest, can yield enjoyment, and without some return of satisfaction to the worker, any labor becomes stale and doubly tiring...