Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long association with the Harvard Club began when the present building was first opened in 1912. At that time he was teaching "Domestic Economy" classes in Bar Harbor, Maine. Fearing that he might be getting stale in his subject, Jones decided to go back to active work for a year or two "to keep his hand in." The "year or two" stretched on to become 28 years...
...Europe had ever seen. Leprous beggars and pockmarked peasants scratched their lice and wallowed in filth unmatched since the Middle Ages. Degraded courtiers wasted themselves lewdly in fashionable excesses copied from the French court of Louis XVI. The harlot Queen Maria Luisa, a green-complexioned, toothless masterpiece of stale flesh, wore herself out with dissipation, while her doltish husband hunted serving wenches and rabbits. (Of Maria Luisa Napoleon said: "Her character is written on her face; it surpasses anything you dare imagine.") Spain's strong man was Don Emmanuel Godoy, a half-educated, country-born ex-guardsman...
...stale, starved life, and it was not improved for Clory when she lost her son and daughter in an epidemic. By the time Abijah got back she was worn and grieved enough to come pretty close to what he wanted in a wife, and to think better of him than she had. But she never quite gave up the idea of getting to less cruel country, or of leaving him altogether...
Cape Burnam and Al Bartholemy, who featured an otherwise stale Yale team, were the sole Elis to gain spots on the team. Burnam won the right-guard post over Sukup of Michigan by two votes, while Bartholemy got the nod over Krieger of Dartmouth by the same slim margin...
There has been much discussion lately concerning the proper place of art in society. Most critics agree that art should be for the people; it should be removed from the stale, unhealthy atmosphere which in the past has bred pseudo-intellectuals and dilettantish connoisseurs. In short, if art is to justify its own existence, it must be something more than a patrician hobby...