Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meant plenty to many a middle-aged Vallee fan who had crammed into Chicago's Copacabana to hear him sing. Rudy's idea of up-to-date stuff was stale master-of-ceremonies patter and a try at ventriloquism. His routine was as wooden as his dummies (Ezry, Sally Ann and Linoleum). Only when he sang The Stein Song and As Time Goes By in his old nasal way did the crowd stop sitting on its hands...
...read when he regained his sight. After midnight, Langley roamed the city, pulling a cardboard box on the end of a long rope. He inspected garbage cans for food, begged meat scraps from a kindly butcher, sometimes walked all the way to Brooklyn to get a loaf of stale bread. On rare occasions he darted into a liquor store, after first peering carefully through the door, and bought a pint of whiskey-"for medicinal purposes...
...crackers were stale, so the little man with the bright eyes drew some women's heads on them. The proprietor of the Left Bank bistro in the Rue Mabillon was furious; he threw them to his frowsy dog, Peggy. When the artist left, a sad-faced patron said to the proprietor: "Those little crackers that Peggy ate were worth about fifty thousand francs apiece. That was Picasso...
...game seem easier. While his players romp on the court, Keaney, a Phi Beta Kappa, calls to them in his own curious language, compounded of corny phrases he has coined himself, mixed with Latin or Latin-sounding words. Samples: "Little Ossie Fagus, non compos mentis, biblioclasmic. . . . You're stale stew ... go back to the widdy bimps [bench] . . . don't be a Fanny Willie [showoff] ... dig up a new arm in some cemetery." Besides being athletic director and basketball coach, Keaney also brews his own medicines; the team swears by his skin-hardener and his cure for athlete...
...York G.O.P. delegation to Congress, and taking an active part in the campaign to make Indiana's Charles Halleck the House Majority Leader. Was he ready to announce his candidacy? "Certainly not." Did that mean "certainly not ready?" Digging deep, Tom dredged up a slightly stale gag: "Certainly not-period...