Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week they played a practical joke on the Seventh Pan-American Conference at Montevideo (TIME, Dec. 11). The joke kept august delegates of 21 American nations standing hungrily about in a great marble hall for more than an hour and a half while their dinner grew dry and stale...
...uncompromising as before about his programs. He would come but he would play only Beethoven. He would not play encores for the sake of sending any audience away with a marshmallow taste in its mouth. On no account did he want a long tour which might let him get stale. He preferred to play with orchestras, although orchestra fees are always lower than those for individual recitals...
...Cake" if they have not done so already; the former is the more finished product. Gershwin, Gershwin, Ryskind, Kaufman, and Sam Harris; the combination should have been able to produce another hit equally as good as "Of Thee I Sing," but success seems to make writers a little stale; this brings me to Mr. O'Neill...
...fulfill the science requirement, the course is much patronized by those to whom the rigours of an actual science would be distasteful. But it has rigours of its own, and the unorthodox will learn that a laboratory without labor is of all the creations of man the most weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable. The subject matter purports to deal with man and his habitat, but it soon develops into nothing more than a series of bald platitudes, reached by devious roads of deduction, a compendium of the laborious undeniable. The vocabulary is meretricious; the reading matter...
...daughter in love (Nancy Sheridan), the lazy, acquisitive son (David Morris), the shrewd, big-hearted mother incapable of discipline (Helen Lowell), the speculating uncle, the unsuccessful suitor who makes pig faces to register loutishness, the stereotyped count and the rich, disapproving aunt. Weighed down with stock characters, a stale plot and mechanical lines, Come Easy made its mild zoo of feckless people easily believable. Director Miele kept bouncing her characters into spontaneity, accented their brash selfishness, their reluctant and shamefaced fondness for one another. Best performances: David Morris as the sulky and likeable son; Helen Lowell making of the harried...