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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dislike TIME. As a matter of fact, there is no magazine that I read which has such bad taste-the Heflin article-or such smart-alecky style. Your "inside stuff" is commendable, but Variety has far more than you, and is also amusing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...below or pounce down on you from above, let it creep cautiously behind you and tap you on the back of the neck, let it go all around and over and under you and inside you and through you. Relax, and give this PLAY a chance to strut its stuff-relax, don't worry because it's not like something else-relax, stop wondering what it's all 'about'-like many strange and familiar things, Life included, this PLAY isn't 'about,' it simply is. Don't try to despise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...stuff and nonsense: Funny Face, Good News, Rain or Shine, Manhattan Mary, Keep Shufflin', Rosalie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...have been boycotted and spurned. I say now that this generation is the most sterile of any there has been in the way of literature. Not one of my living contemporaries is worth talking about. . . . Conrad's work will be dead in a year. Anyone could write the stuff he wrote about barges floating in green-blue hazes. . . . Thomas Hardy couldn't write two lines of correct English and . . . had no insight into human nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Success Intoxicates | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...stuff and nonsense: Funny Face, Good News, Rain or Shine, Manhattan Mary, Keep Shufflin', Take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 9, 1928 | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

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