Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting, and the men who, for religious reasons, are not fighting. . . . On the American front right now a deadly war is being waged between the forces of Fascism, who would suppress our civil liberties, and the forces of democracy and tolerance. All the jingoism and the stale hatemongering of our leaders since Pearl Harbor has sickened me; seldom have I heard a vital statement, a clear, enlightened pronouncement, recognizing that the rights of minorities are the very things we fight for, and if we deny them what excuse have we to fight? Instead of admitting the strength of pacifists...
...Southern mill-hand, she poses as an aristocrat from Virginia. Into their marriage comes Mike Ambler, a reasonably accurate facsimile of William Saroyan, whose new play is about to open on Broadway. Ambler takes a fancy to Pason, tears down his reserves, and just as the critic is becoming stale, brings out the human qualities in him. But Ambler also falls in love with Lisa. The night of the opening of Mike's play the crisis comes: Lisa prepares to run off with Mike and Jason fights back with the only weapon he has--words. As Jason dictates his review...
Fourth. Club: Germany. Nickname: Huns. Manager: Hitler. Comment: veteran team; went well against minor-league competition threat. Predictions: looks to be stale; manager trouble; contender. Odds...
...music, sometimes warm and romantic, is oftener florid and stale...
Peabody and MacKinney will work out with trainer Jimmy Cox in the Indoor Athletic Building during the next few weeks to keep from going too stale, but actual practice sessions will not begin until the afternoon of December 18 when the all-star team will get together for the first time in Evanston, Illinois...