Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...radio operator and have been copying such broadcasts off and on for the past five years. It is tabloid stuff, selected with apparently no thought of the field it is to reach. A man at sea is merely bored to read the bald statement that "1 dies, 3 injured in crash at Little Rock"; yet when the service is gratis one scarcely can complain. It is my hope, therefore, that TIME and this station can cooperate in furnishing a high-class news broadcast to ships...
...hangs over the story of Jay Gould. It is not so much, perhaps, that consumption took its gradual toll of his energies and powers. Nor is it that his chief business intimates died penniless, or insane, or by violence. Gould had the Midas-touch. He transmuted the most unlikely stuff into gold. But in the transmuting he took from it all life and beauty, left it deflowered and pitiful. Said pleasure-loving Jim Fisk: "Gould lets everyone carry out his own corpse." Said pious, ruthless Daniel Drew: "His touch is as death...
When the good old stuff was aged in the wood...
Baron Dewar, famed British whiskey distiller, has a new quip: "I am told that the infallible American method of testing bootleg whiskey is to drop a sledge hammer into it. If it sinks, the stuff is poor, if it floats, good, and if it dissolves, perfect...
...such shoddy human stuff the Shahkta Trial is providing an unprecedented thrill for Soviet Russians-who are deprived of porno-tabloids, sex dramas, and even mystery plays by the wisdom and dictatorship of the Communist Party...