Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Imagine this silly stuff (TIME, June 11, p. 17, "King"): "His Majesty though he may look like a dentist, is valorous at heart...
...cannot see why you are putting in so much stuff about the Jews. We all know that they are a noble race; we are told so in the daily papers constantly. But that is no reason-au contraire, I should think-for turning TIME into a Menorah Journal...
...parade is Tammany's George Washington Olvany, suave, cocoa-drinking successor to Murphy, Croker and Tweed. No tyro in politics, Boss Olvany knows that Tammany is Democracy's unwanted child. Orders have gone out to the lesser Tigers (Ahearns, Sullivans, Hoeys, Flynns, Bradys, McCues, Ryans): no rough stuff, no noise, no liquor parties. Backslapping, in which Olvany does not indulge, actively or passively, is frowned upon. New York's Jimmie Walker, on the wagon, grins at the restless Tigers and quotes the price of corn whiskey.* Boss Olvany lifts his long eyelashes, advises calisthenics, cold showers...
Despite the fact that a cut and dried proceedure perversely realized all the confident predictions of its outcome, despite the fact that all its planks were ground up to make sawdust with which to stuff empty promises, despite the fact that all the favorite sons rejected favoritism and agreed with the Saturday Evening Post, the results of the Republican Convention produced as formidable a mixture as the Republican voters themselves could have hoped to have chosen. Selecting a candidate for the most "important position in the world" as the croaking orators repeatedly informed them, the delegates were sheep-like...
...little girls in their white dresses went creeping about the lawns giving vent to small cries. The stags at the party chased them from time to time: there was a regrettable fracas when one of the latter, finding himself next a small female with a loud voice, attempted to stuff his handkerchief down her throat and cut off her hair, perhaps her head, with his pocket knife. An alderman took action and the party progressed without further untoward incident until the time came for eating...