Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aphorisms, wise words they learned as their financial ABC's. "Consider public opinion," "frank and honest information about corporation business," "particular cordiality to stockholders," "no more damning of public or government," "conforming to existent laws," "cooperation rather than competition," "consideration for labor," "8-hour day." These phrases sound stale nowadays. A generation ago they were novel, might have continued so yet. But Judge Gary who invented them-something few of the younger businessmen know-applied them practically to the conduct of the U. S. Steel Corp., when in 1901 he took command as J. P. Morgan...
...voice has been lifted against any of them. And yet the moralists go down into a remote corner of the town, where men and women are as tough as stale beefsteaks, and demand that the lid be clapped on the innocent spectacle of a fat girl shaking her middle...
Watts Gunn beat W. G. Brownlow. Brownlow was obviously stale, almost as stale as Tolley. Gunn, keen as mustard, won hole after hole, finished...
...dreadful little note lay on the kitchen table. It was full of worn words, stale phrases used a thousand times in stories and plays: "Couldn't stand it any longer. . . am taking the children out of their misery because the boy is already beginning to show characteristics of his father." Strychnine, antidote for an ominous heredity, had twisted the limbs and belly 'of the male child, 18 months old-had screwed the face of his sister, 3, into a last grimace. The woman, one Mrs. M. D. Tilman of Chicago, had finished the bottle herself. She lay dead...
...like a piece of cracker on gelatin. With a blunt instrument Dr. Dandy separated this piece of bone from the underlying, attached dura mater. Into that tough membrane, into the arachnoid tissue, into the pia mater-carefully, very carefully. Some blood. The mass came loose like a slab of stale custard...