Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be a hard boiled individual who will reach for a drink after reading "The Beautiful and Damned" at one sitting. The consumption of liquor in quarts per page is so tremendous that the reader sooner or later begins to sense the stale liquor smell and the motorman's glove taste of the morning after. Mr. Fitzgerald, to repeat, may have no such intention but he has succeeded in demonstrating pretty effectively that the pursuit of pleasure as the end of life may be at the beginning pretty delightful but is likely to prove less so as the highballs succeed...
...Freshman crew is at the top of its form at present and Dr. Rowe is giving it very easy work, against the possibility of its getting stale...
...yard hurdle race at Penn Stale was only three-fifths of a second slower than the American record, and R. S. Whitney '22 did good work in finishing close to Barron, who ran second to Earl Thompson at the Olympics last summer. G. Krogness '21 and R. W. Eitts '23 have only been out a short while and are not yet in lop form, but they are coming along rapidly, and by the middle of May the University should have a trio of hurdlers well above the average...