Word: old-hat
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Everywhere they sensed the world's deep economic agony. In one day in Shanghai, the rate on the dollar changed from 40,000 Chinese dollars to 46,000. For Gardner Cowles of the Des Moines Register and Tribune the trip was old-hat; he had done it before with the late Wendell Willkie. Then he had come back hopeful. This time he sensed a worldwide feeling that peace "had been fumbled." The U.S., he feared, would not be able to "pick up all the checks...
...considerable portion of the prewar fleet of ancient jalopies was still on its wheels and able to backfire. But the flivver and all its appurtenances was growing unfashionable-the fox tail, which once flew from every steaming radiator, was now as old-hat as the coonskin...
...done it with the T. Greasy Neale went to Philadelphia as a general practitioner, with just about every known variety of formation in his bag-except the T. He added that after watching the Chicago Bears pulverize the Washington Redskins, 73-0. The modernized, tricked-up version of the old-hat T was just beginning to catch on; the Bears, with Quarterback Sid Luckman handling the ball and directing his team's fabulous repertory of 300 plays, were powerful persuaders...
...method on its summer students.* Behind its stately facade, soft-voiced, bespectacled Executive Director Arnold Shaw of the Schillinger Society gave the first Schillinger lecture in an American music school. His objective: to prepare 35 music teachers and students for 1950, when Schillingerites predict that orthodox composers will be old-hat and "pure music" will be created by music engineers on machines (like the Rhythmicon invented by Schillinger...
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; 12 sides). For all its old-hat grotesqueness, this underrated masterpiece well deserves the pulsing performance which Rodzinski gives it, also merits a better recording...