Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wilbur Theatre at 8.20--"Paris" with Irene Bordoni. Trivial stuff but highly amusing just the same. As good as anything for getting exams out of mind for a few hours...
...meet" was food for no little amount of ridicule. The glory of victory in this type of combat is indeed not of the strike-up-the-band manner; nor is it to be placed among any categories of the past. It is, like the contest itself, of more subtle stuff, and the exchange of thoughts and progress between universities is not the least of its merits...
...mother's womb, and of casting a fatal ailment upon her beloved foster-father. When God ignores her challenge that He restore this good man's life, she believes herself indeed a witch, and sets herself weirdly to learning the trade. Straws and hairs and fingernails are stuff for fantastic poppets; Ahab, the neighbor Thumb's bull is fit to make a virile familiar. In answer to her prayers that the Prince of Darkness send her a tutor in the black arts, there appears nightly a demon disguised in the swarthy skin and gold hooped earrings...
...Broun had done every sort of writing for the World except giving advice to the lovelorn. He had been reporter, book reviewer, theatre critic (before he developed a phobia for the theatre), sports writer, columnist. His whims had upset the World routine; but his stuff had a following. Last August, he came to a stalemate with Publisher Ralph Pulitzer of the World because he insisted on writing very, very pinkish words on the Sacco-Vanzetti case (TIME, Aug. 22). It was not until late in December that Mr. Broun's column again appeared in the World. Meanwhile, he took...
...many of the defects that characterized its initial employment. Evidently all the participants have extracted something helpful from the January experiment, for this spring assignments are better proportioned, students less perplexed as to the exact intent of the Period, and the Union and Widener more completely furnished with the stuff by which examinations are passed...