Word: well-worn
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...well-worn remark to the effect that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country, has more than once gone the way of all good epigrams--to its refutation. And now, exception has once more been taken to it, for, in the current number of The Nineteenth Century and After, appears an article by P. S. Richards which extols, in no uncertain terms, Professor Irving Babbitt as among the foremost, if not the most eminent, of contemporary constructive critics...
...entertains old friends, few new ones-and opera singers practically not at all. As conductor he is supreme, can vitalize well-worn music as no other of the day. With him the music is the thing. A dowager soprano once fussed "But, maestro, don't you realize that I'm a star...
...from the mountaineers of East Tennessee. It is a working class song straight from men on the job, uttered to muscular body rhythms. One can almost hear the ring of steel on steel. There is a heave of shoulders, deep breath control, the touch of hands on a familiar well-worn hammer handle...
...days when he was overlord of mails, telephone and telegraph, when cables could be confiscated at his command. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy (1913-21), no longer master of Admirals, went back to the sleepy North Carolina town of Raleigh. There he shifted from cutaway to a well-worn coat, settled down to the life of a small-town editor that he had known from his 18th year. Newton Diehl Baker, Secretary of War (1916-21), that short, slim, dark man whom Democrats call the "fighting pacifist" is too good a speaker to withdraw from the public rostrum...
...that they had seen miracles, seen blood flowing from the statues of the Virgin, seen her eyes weeping in sorrow, seen her head lower or her hand raise in benediction. Over all Europe good Catholics lifted up their voices in "Ave Marias" as they counted out their prayers on well-worn rosaries...