Word: stuff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unwelcome guest, elaborately welcomed, is fair meat for "Elizabeth's" delicate irony. Gay and delightful in manner, there is no gaiety in Expiation-all marriage is discontent, all marriage disagreeable. And according to old Mrs. Bott, the negative moral is that troubles, being the stuff that dreams are made on, will pass...
There are, of course, a great many people who feel that Actor Hampden has been Dean for a number of years. And there are plenty of other people?O'Neill addicts and the like?who believe that any man who can take Shakespeare seriously must be full of stuff and bombast. Whatever the case, Actor Hampden would be the last to worry about it one way or another, and last week found him proceeding comfortably into the third month of his second triumphal revival of Cyrano de Bergerac, with his own company, under his own direction, in his own theatre...
What do you mean by calling a hard-boiled publisher a sociologist in the last issue of TIME? Where do you get that stuff...
...ways in Cambridge. "Why not?" I says, stalling. Always stall, Joe, when you get into a jam with a dean. He thought I was trying to get control of my emotions. Losing my crack at college life and squash and the clubs and voting. And Reinhart. That stuff...
...gifts of medicine come by mail. Every day the police on duty at the gates receive parcels of stuff which are delivered in person. One old lady rode up from the country in a motor car which must have been any age at the outbreak of the late War, and demanded to be taken in front of Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's chief physician. She was handled tactfully, and when she realized that she was unable to see the great doctor she disclosed that she had brought up a jar containing a mixture of linseed, aromatic herbs...