Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from $3 to $3.50 per 1,000, an expensive remedy. 3) Cutting prices. 4) Putting out special "fighting brands" of 10? cigarets. 5) Training their advertising guns directly at the enemy, which might do the ten-center more good than harm. A FORTUNE suggestion to President George Washington Hill: "STALE FISH STINK. ... So do cheap cigarets...
...kind of naked-and- unashamed look'': of Queen Mary at Wimbledon-"Her hats exactly suit her. They're magnificent on her" of the Summer Casino at Monte Carlo with its floating revue-stage anchored offshore. But smart Katharine Brush let a few drops of amazingly stale beer get into her cocktail. She wrote...
...unpacking the casteroed hair-trunk which arrived a week ago from the sequestered loneliness of his cabin on the heights of Monadnock. Among the tobacco tins and books he found one small red box. It bore the legend "Salome: Gold Tipped," and in the tinfoil lining there was a stale, forgotten cigarette, still slightly fragrant with rose...
...name contributors. Many of them appeared only once; sometimes their contributions would be brief or palpably second-rate. Occasionally ? as in the case of Donald Ogden Stewart's Rebound and Noel Coward's Private Lives which had already been produced on the stage ? they were comparatively stale. But the names on the cover, names like Alec Waugh. George Jean Nathan, Stephen Vincent Benet, Wallace Irwin, were impressive...
...quoting the Basle Committee's urgent advice last year that "adjustment of all intergovernmental debts to the existing troubled situation of the world . . . should take place without delay if new disasters are to be avoided" (TIME, Jan. 4). A great orator, Scot MacDonald gave new freshness to this stale, sound advice by rolling out such exhortations...