Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fresh Beer, Stale Gags. There were bull sessions everywhere and at all hours, and 75 kegs of beer to keep them afloat. There were a few more formal meetings of minds: in Baker Rink, Physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth, who wrote the War Department's Smyth Report, ran a forum on atomic energy. But most of the talk was the chitchat of old grads-who was doing what, and where, and to whom; what had happened to so-and-so; the off-color jokes, the old, corny gags. The commonest initial emotion was embarrassment-the desperate stab at a classmate...
Along with Eddie Miller, Wingy Mannone, Irving Fazola, and Nappy Lamare, Prima belongs to the second generation of hot musicians from the New Orleans white district. He grew up on the strong musical diet of "Papa" Laine, Dave Perkins, "Yellow" Nunez, "Stale Bread" Lacoume and others of that calibre, who played in what has been called the New Orleans white style...
...place during the fall term as it had been from 1943 on. The turning point came on the warm autumn day of Friday, February 1, when 1200 veterans, new Harvardmen and old, marched through Memorial Hall, bought their combined SERVICE NEWS-CRIMSON subscriptions, and added new flavor to a stale Cantab brew...
Says Theologian Walter M. Horton of Oberlin: they feel that "the traditional churches have gone stale, dead, flat...
...fans of the Duke's Mood Indigo, Sophisticated Lady and It Don't Mean a Thing days, the concert had the taste of a stale highball. They had come for ginmill stuff and had been served something more like a bad-year champagne. The Duke once more dragged out such pretentious symphonic items as Black, Brown and Beige (listed as "a musical parallel to the history of the American Negro"); Perfume Suite ("each section . . . tries to convey the essence of a particular fragrance"). Until late in the evening, when the band got back to being itself on easy...