Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Around the fire they gathered in the cool of a May evening to talk, as Harvard men will, "of ships and sealing wax and things." '28 asked the Vagabond about Class Day down in the Houses with a note of stale regret in his voice and the Vagabond answered in the words of, as the newspapers have it, our Dr. Lowell that--"that institution is dead which does not change." "I know," said '28, "but the fountains, what about the fountains, will they play in the quadrangles?" Alas, no one knew, though the lip thatch lifted to impart...
...suggested better than words the late John Burrough's contention that each cat in the U. S. kills on the average 50 birds a year. And it made unnecessary a photograph the society sought to take last week of a house cat stalking a stuffed bird rubbed with stale fish...
...rumpus among Hollywood press-agents when she failed to be elected a "Wampas Baby Star of 1931," and James Dunn, who gave a fine performance in Bad Girl. All of which makes it disappointing that Sob Sister emerges as a routine, though fairly lively, drama dedicated to the stale proposition that newshawks are animated by semi-religious loyalty to their employers...
...vexed, vituperative Texas Legislature grappled its cotton problem last week. While the insistent voice of Louisiana's red-headed Governor Huey Pierce Long barked annoyingly through loudspeakers, while the Governors of a half-dozen other cotton Slates waited anxiously to see what the Stale which produces 33% of U. S. cotton would do, Texas repudiated Governor Long's dramatic "Drop-a-Crop" plan and offered to the South a less drastic solution: reduction of the next two years' cotton production to one-half its 1931 level. But first the Texas Legislature paid its respects to its neighboring...
Company B, Stale Ranger Force Fort Worth, Texas...