Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republican regulars looked at Harold Stassen with new interest. Partly it was because the overworked gossip about other presidential possibilities had turned stale for the time being. Partly it was because GOPsters were curious about the impact of his European jaunt. But mostly it was because of Stassen himself...
...woman as firm and substantial as black bread. Fannie did everything big. She yearned for a 30-room house. In later, better days, she frequently brought home 20 pounds of fish for her little family, and baked up vast heaps of pastry that lay around for weeks going stale. In bigness, Fannie found an outlet from an environment that imprisoned her as a radiator imprisons steam. At this steam valve, Billy was nurtured and here he inhaled the megalophilia that has dominated his life...
That winter, the Rose really bloomed. His name became as current in Broadway beaneries as stale bagels. To keep up the chatter, Billy hired Pressagent Maney. In the next seven years, Maney forced the growth of the real Rose with a rich and soggy compost of legends, half-truths and downright fiction. But Maney also spread Billy's fame as a "Bantam Barnum," "Mighty Midget" and "Basement Belasco...
...first job and blame for the long delay in the Lilienthal case. Under the whip of Arthur Vandenberg, the 80th had backed the "bipartisan" foreign policy. Whether that backing would continue would depend somewhat on President Truman, somewhat on domestic politics. There were signs that the honeymoon was going stale...
...week will put on a comprehensive exhibition of her work. Last week a book of her pictures (Grandma Moses, American Primitive, Doubleday; $6) was re-issued with an introduction by Literary Rustic Louis Bromfield, who compared her with Peter Bruegel. Grandma Moses is no Bruegel, but she is no stale Picasso either. Sophisticates rave over the artless joy in her paintings...