Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...growing fear? The vintners discarded Kalorienspritzer (calory splasher) and Zonenschleicher (zonal sneaker). They chose Knochenrappler, which means "rattler of bones." The children of Germany knew well what the vintners meant; thousands of German kids, searching for food, rattled bones in garbage cans. If they found an egg, however stale, it was precious. And if the egg could be cooked in an old war helmet (see cut), that was a symbol of the menacing German future as well as of the guilty German past...
...Chicago Daily News's Critic C. J. Bulliet led the sneering section with the remark that "these ' 'isms,' grown stale and sterile in the lands of their origins, are further enfeebled crossing the Atlantic." Whatever the critics might say, Director Daniel Catton Rich was convinced that he was showing not the dead hand of the past but the shining face of the future. Only ten years ago, documentary "American School" painting of barnyards, brick cityscapes and beautiful vacation views had been the style. Now, Institute scouts, back from a 24,000-mile trip around...
...capacity) agreed to halt operations for 60 days and release all grain on hand or on order. Estimated savings: ten to 20 million bushels of grain. The nation's bakers announced that they would save up to 7% on their bread by refusing to take back stale leftovers from retailers. The National Grange, the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Council of Farm Cooperatives produced a five-point program to save grain by feeding less, eliminating waste and marketing lighter stock...
...scenes and a few other high points of dance specialist Kathryn Lee, however, with the usual quota of R & H songs beginning "When a fella ..." "It's a Darn Nice Campus," or "Come home, son, come home," is a little hard to take. The humor is in many places stale--the bewildered freshman was done last year in "Barefoot Boy," for example, and the childhood romance and the rocking chairs of the first set were new in "Our Town." Dead characters moon about the stage in a horrid reminder of "Carousel," and Rodger's brasses blast the hero's wedding...
...cracker barrel. There is the stool pigeon who is efficiently murdered by his fellow convicts; and the steady old hand (Charles Bickford) who grimly joins the rebels when his parole is canceled. The one comparative novelty-Calypso Singer Sir Lancelot, improvising verses about the prisoners-seems like stale...