Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last few years young men have come on the scene who want to be producers. They know nothing so they put on trash. The cry is 'young blood.' Bosh, young blood has corrupted more fine things in this world. It needs to get just a bit stale." About as stale, perhaps, as George Jean Nathan, the Fabulous Invalid's fabulous...
Message from the Window. As the hours dragged by, the rioters quieted.. Food and water supplies at both Trenton and Rahway gave out. The men drained stale water from fire hoses, broke radiators to draw off their rusty water. On the third day at Trenton, officials agreed to an investigation by the Osborne Association, a private organization interested in prison welfare. The next morning, after 77 hours of siege, the Trenton convicts gave...
...year investigations Senator Pat McCarran's "Internal Security" subcommittee side-show barely held its own. The subject of its investigation, subversive influences on our post-war China policy, was neither original or even currently relevant. So Committee-members wiled away their time listening to the personal opinions of such stale talent as professional ex-Communist Louis Budeaz. Last week however the show nose-dived to the level of a disgusting spectacle...
...loose when they are not. In fact, there are plenty of mysteries about ichthyotoxism, and the chief of them is that doctors do not really know what causes ichthyotoxism. It is not to be confused with poisoning caused by the bite of a venomous fish, however, or by eating stale fish in which bacteria have been at work. It comes from eating fresh, healthy fish, of species that have been used as food for generations, e.g., the amberjack that poisoned the naval officer...
Snobs & Farm Girls. Stephen Crane struck the first modern note with tight-lipped stories that anticipated Hemingway and all the little Hemingways. Out West, Frank Norris and Jack London spoke up bluntly. Norris, remarks Critic Brooks, "had Zola's nose for the odor cf stale bedding and of creosote"; London wrote rowdy stories in which "one heard the perpetual crunch-crunch of bones...