Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resistance to Mr. Skinner's watered product, the handsome, enthusiastic adman fired them, being under the impression that "anyone could sell beer if he just forced the issue hard enough." But even his new hirelings could not move the beer which by now was not only watered but stale. This, said Judge Barnes, "merely served to bring about further experimentation by Mr. Skinner...
Mouse Queen Blowers' mice do not scamper madly around her drawing room. They live in nesting boxes-from three to seven in each-stacked in tiers in little huts which hold some 2,000 mice each. Daily they are fed a teaspoonful of oats, alternated with a little stale bread soaked in milk. Mating, classification, feeding, selection for marketing, is a fulltime job for Mrs. Blowers and two assistants. Her mousery produces an average of 1,000 mice a week. Prices range from $1.50 a dozen for mice for experimental laboratories, to $5 to $7.50 each for the best...
...Peter B. Kyne, in the person of Comedian Charles Winninger, whose specialty of impersonating vaguely nautical characters was developed on stage and screen in Show Boat. The danger of an old stand-by like Cappy Ricks is that even 1937 cinemaddicts, with their amazing willingness to lap up stale treacle of all sorts, are likely to find him a little too outmoded. The device used to circumvent this possibility in The Go-Getter is the elaborate but effective one of opening the action with the 1935 wreck of the dirigible Macon and presenting, as the picture's romantic lead...
...administrative instructor, relieved of his research quota to devote his time to standardizing the work in sections and to seeing that each week's work is related to the one before and after it. This position could be shifted among the senior instructors lest any one become stale. Professor Burbank, now overbusy could give his full time to his own course, to the Littauer School, and to the administration of the department, while a system of teaching that is at its best bizarre might become edifying...
...where the casting director did not like the name Joachim. Al glanced out a window, saw the Ritz Laundry, called himself that. He became moderately successful, lured his brothers into vaudeville. They launched a collegiate act in 1925, soon landed in Earl Carroll's Vanities. But collegiatism went stale and the trio had three lean years before they developed their present brand of satirical lunacy. It finally got them a job in a night club where Darryl Zanuck spotted them, hired them as an adjunct to the hilarious musical Sing Baby Sing. There, especially in a Jekyll & Hyde number...