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Word: guff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kennedy's overstuffed briefcase came for Mr. Roosevelt's inspection stacks of reports "too confidential for the cables." In them, some said, was a basis for a U. S. move toward international peace. Stuff & guff, said others; in the Kennedy dossiers was proof there will be no international peace soon.* Only sure fact was that Mr. Kennedy likes to spend December in Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Smiling Sphinx | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...that he does not represent its views on this subject, when the Dec. 30 issue of The Commonweal publishes two articles by high Catholic Churchmen blasting his statements, when outstanding Protestant ministers and laymen have condemned such vicious un-Americanism, how long are people going to listen to such guff from the head of the discredited Social Justice political party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...disillusioning thing is that this man, believe it or not, the same who delivered Friday evening's guff, graduated from Harvard College, in good standing, about thirty-two years ago. Perhaps those who have repeatedly told us that educated men should go into politics were on the wrong track. Not that intelligent youth should shy from public service. Not that the problems of government are too narrow to challenge the gifted. But that, judging from our eminent example, and from Abraham Lincoln, perhaps brains and character are more important than, and not essential to, education, good family, and wealth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARDMAN SPEAKS | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

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